Multilingual scene character recognition with co-occurrence of histogram of oriented gradients

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 51, Issue , 2016, Pages 125-134

  Tian, Shangxuan ^a   Bhattacharya, Ujjwal ^c   Lu, Shijian ^b   Su, Bolan ^b   Wang, Qingqing ^d   Wei, Xiaohua ^d   Lu, Yue ^d   Tan, Chew Lim ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

^c INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^d EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Co occurrence HOG; Histogram of Oriented Gradients; Multilingual Scene Text; Scene Character Recognition

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; GRAPHIC METHODS; PIXELS;

AUTOMATIC MACHINES; CO-OCCURRENCE; CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION; FEATURE DESCRIPTORS; HISTOGRAM OF ORIENTED GRADIENTS; HISTOGRAM OF ORIENTED GRADIENTS (HOG); SCENE TEXT; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 84955683269     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2015.07.009     Document Type: Article

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