Robust text detection in natural scene images by generalized color-enhanced contrasting extremal region and neural networks

Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 2715-2720

  Sun, Lei ^a,b   Huo, Qiang ^b   Jia, Wei ^a,b   Chen, Kai ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Generalized color enhanced contrasting extremal region; Natural scene image; Neural networks; Text detection

Indexed keywords

COLOR; FORESTRY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PATTERN RECOGNITION; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

DIVIDE AND CONQUER; EXTREMAL; ILLUMINATION INVARIANT; LEARNING STRATEGY; NATURAL SCENE IMAGES; SATURATION CHANNELS; TEXT DETECTION; TEXT DETECTION IN NATURAL SCENES;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

DATA PROCESSING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 84919904152     PISSN: 10514651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPR.2014.469     Document Type: Conference Paper

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