Scale based region growing for scene text detection

MM 2013 - Proceedings of the 2013 ACM Multimedia Conference

Volumn 2013-January, Issue , 2013, Pages 1007-1016

  Mao, Junhua ^a   Li, Houqiang ^a   Zhou, Wengang ^b   Yan, Shuicheng ^c   Tian, Qi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

neural network; region growing; scene text; sift

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX BACKGROUND; DAILY LIVES; MULTIMEDIA APPLICATIONS; NEURAL-NETWORKS; REGION GROWING; SCENE TEXT; SIFT; SIFT FEATURE; TEXT DETECTION; TEXT REGION;

COMPLEX NETWORKS;

EID: 85134330668     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2502081.2502108     Document Type: Conference Paper

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