Detection of curved text path based on the Fuzzy curve-tracing (FCT) algorithm

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

Volumn 2001-January, Issue , 2001, Pages 266-270

  Yan, Hong ^a,b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Character recognition; Document image analysis; Extraction of text lines; Fuzzy c means (FCM) clustering algorithm; Fuzzy curve tracing (FCT) algorithm; Processing of artistic documents

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CHARACTER RECOGNITION; COPYING; EXTRACTION; FUZZY CLUSTERING; FUZZY SYSTEMS; PIXELS;

CLUSTER CENTERS; DOCUMENT IMAGE ANALYSIS; FUZZY C-MEANS ALGORITHMS; FUZZY C-MEANS CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; FUZZY CURVE-TRACING ALGORITHMS; INITIAL CURVE; TEXT EXTRACTION; TEXT LINES;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84951851521     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2001.953796     Document Type: Conference Paper

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