New Gradient-Spatial-Structural Features for video script identification

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 130, Issue , 2015, Pages 35-53

  Shivakumara, Palaiahnakote ^a   Yuan, Zehuan ^b   Zhao, Danni ^c   Lu, Tong ^b   Tan, Chew Lim ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Dominant video text pixels; Gradient blocks; Gradient Spatial Structural Features; Video script identification; Video text blocks

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION RATES; COMPLEX BACKGROUND; CONTRAST VARIATION; INTERSECTION POINTS; SCRIPT IDENTIFICATION; STRUCTURAL FEATURE; VERTICAL GRADIENTS; VIDEO TEXT BLOCKS;

PIXELS;

EID: 84912012167     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: 1090235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cviu.2014.09.003     Document Type: Article

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