Automatic sign detection and recognition in natural scenes

IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops

Volumn 2005-September, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Silapachote, Piyanuch ^a   Weinman, Jerod ^a   Hanson, Allen ^a   Weiss, Richard ^b   Mattar, Marwan A ^a  

^a Biologically Inspired Neural and Dynamical Systems Laboratory   (United States)

^b HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; TEXTURES;

AMOUNT OF INFORMATION; IMAGING CONDITIONS; MAXIMUM ENTROPY MODELING; PROJECTIVE DISTORTIONS; RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; SIGN DETECTION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE CLASSIFIERS; VISUALLY IMPAIRED;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 85020607300     PISSN: 21607508     EISSN: 21607516     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CVPR.2005.417     Document Type: Conference Paper

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