Multi-Orientation Scene Text Detection with Adaptive Clustering

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1930-1937

  Yin, Xu Cheng ^a   Pei, Wei Yi ^a   Zhang, Jun ^a   Hao, Hong Wei ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BEIJING   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

Author keywords

adaptive hierarchical clustering; coarse To fine grouping; multi orientation; Scene text detection

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

ADAPTIVE HIERARCHICAL CLUSTERING; COARSE TO FINE; CONTENT BASED IMAGES; DISTANCE METRIC LEARNING; DIVISIVE HIERARCHICAL CLUSTERING; SCENE TEXT; STATE-OF-THE-ART PERFORMANCE; TEXT DETECTION IN NATURAL SCENES;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 84939244993     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2014.2388210     Document Type: Article

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