Character segmentation of color images from digital camera

Proceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR

Volumn 2001-January, Issue , 2001, Pages 210-214

  Wang, Kongqiao ^a   Kangas, Jari A ^a   Li, Wenwen ^a  

^a Nokia (China) R and D Center   (China)

Author keywords

Character segmentation; Edge detection; Watershed transform and color clustering

Indexed keywords

COLOR; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; DIGITAL CAMERAS; EDGE DETECTION; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; VIDEO CAMERAS; WATERSHEDS;

BINARY FORMAT; CHARACTER SEGMENTATION; COLOR CLUSTERING; COLOR IMAGES; OCR SYSTEMS; PRIOR KNOWLEDGE; SCENE IMAGE; WATERSHED TRANSFORM;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84951729304     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2001.953785     Document Type: Conference Paper

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