A robust arbitrary text detection system for natural scene images

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 41, Issue 18, 2014, Pages 8027-8048

  Risnumawan, Anhar ^a   Shivakumara, Palaiahankote ^a   Chan, Chee Seng ^a   Tan, Chew Lim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Arbitrary text detection; Ellipse growing; Invariant properties; Symmetry features; Text restoration; Text verification

Indexed keywords

RESTORATION;

CHARACTER ORIENTATION; CLUTTERED BACKGROUNDS; COMPUTER VISION PROBLEMS; INVARIANT PROPERTIES; NATURAL SCENE IMAGES; SYMMETRY FEATURES; TEXT DETECTION; UNCONSTRAINED ENVIRONMENTS;

PIXELS;

EID: 84905715413     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2014.07.008     Document Type: Article

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