A fast hierarchical method for multi-script and arbitrary oriented scene text extraction

International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 335-349

  Gomez, Lluis ^a   Karatzas, Dimosthenis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Detection; Hierarchical grouping; Perceptual organization; Scene text; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; ERROR DETECTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

DISCRIMINATIVE CLASSIFIERS; FAST HIERARCHICAL METHOD; HIERARCHICAL GROUPINGS; HIERARCHICAL ORGANIZATIONS; PERCEPTUAL ORGANIZATION; SCENE TEXT; SCENE TEXT EXTRACTIONS; STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS;

TEXT PROCESSING;

EID: 84991363489     PISSN: 14332833     EISSN: 14332825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10032-016-0274-2     Document Type: Article

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