Symmetry-based text line detection in natural scenes

Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Volumn 07-12-June-2015, Issue , 2015, Pages 2558-2567

  Zhang, Zheng ^a   Shen, Wei ^b   Yao, Cong ^a   Bai, Xiang ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BENCHMARKING; CHARACTER RECOGNITION; COMPUTER VISION;

CONVENTIONAL APPROACH; DIRECT EXTRACTION; NOVEL ALGORITHM; RESEARCH TOPICS; STATE-OF-THE-ART PERFORMANCE; SYMMETRY PROPERTIES; TEXT LINE DETECTION; TEXTUAL INFORMATION;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 84959179478     PISSN: 10636919     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CVPR.2015.7298871     Document Type: Conference Paper

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