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ICDAR
2011
IEEE
12 years 11 months ago
Edge-Based Features for Localization of Artificial Urdu Text in Video Images
—Content-based video indexing and retrieval has become an interesting research area with the tremendous growth in the amount of digital media. In addition to the audio-visual con...
Akhtar Jamil, Imran Siddiqi, Fahim Arif, Ahsen Raz...
ICDAR
2011
IEEE
12 years 11 months ago
Extending Page Segmentation Algorithms for Mixed-Layout Document Processing
—The goal of this work is to add the capability to segment documents containing text, graphics, and pictures in the open source OCR engine OCRopus. To achieve this goal, OCRopus...
Amy Winder, Tim L. Andersen, Elisa H. Barney Smith
ICPR
2010
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Extracting Captions in Complex Background from Videos
—Captions in videos play a significant role for automatically understanding and indexing video content, since much semantic information is associated with them. This paper presen...
Xiaoqian Liu, Weiqiang Wang
ICDAR
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Localization, Extraction and Recognition of Text in Telugu Document Images
In this paper we present a system to locate, extract and recognize Telugu text. The circular nature of Telugu script is exploited for segmenting text regions using the Hough Trans...
Atul Negi, K. Nikhil Shanker, Chandra Kanth Chered...
ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Text-tracking wearable camera system for visually-impaired people
Disability of visual text reading has a huge impact on the quality of life for visually disabled people. One of the most anticipated devices is a wearable camera capable of findi...
Makoto Tanaka, Hideaki Goto
ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Unsupervised categorization of heterogeneous text images based on fractals
This paper deals about text extraction from heterogeneous documents for categorizing documents and indexing tasks. The purpose of this work is to find similar text regions basing ...
Badreddine Khelifi, Nizar Zaghden, Adel M. Alimi, ...
ICMCS
2008
IEEE
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14 years 5 months ago
Coarse-to-fine video text detection
In this paper, we propose an effective coarse-to-fine algorithm to detect text in video. Firstly, in coarse-detection section, stroke filter is employed to detect all candidate st...
Guangyi Miao, Qingming Huang, Shuqiang Jiang, Wen ...
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Text-Tracking Wearable Camera System for the Blind
Disability of visual text reading has a huge impact on the quality of life for visually disabled people. One of the most anticipated devices is a wearable camera capable of findi...
Hideaki Goto, Makoto Tanaka
CVPR
2004
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
Detecting and Reading Text in Natural Scenes
This paper gives an algorithm for detecting and reading text in natural images. The algorithm is intended for use by blind and visually impaired subjects walking through city scen...
Xiangrong Chen, Alan L. Yuille
CVPR
2001
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
An Adaptive Algorithm for Text Detection from Natural Scenes
We present a new adaptive algorithm for automatic detection of text from a natural scene. The initial cues of text regions are first detected from the captured image/video. An ada...
Jiang Gao, Jie Yang