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ICDAR
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Improved Text-Detection Methods for a Camera-based Text Reading System for Blind Persons
Automatic text recognition from natural images receives a growing attention because of potential applications in image retrieval, robotics and intelligent transport system. Camera...
Nobuo Ezaki, Kimiyasu Kiyota, Bui Truong Minh, Mar...
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
12 years 8 months ago
Enhancement of uneven lighting text image using line-based Empirical Mode Decomposition
Non-uniform light distribution problems often arise in the text images taken by digital camera. In this paper, we propose a novel technique for text image uneven lighting removal ...
Soo-Chang Pei, Mary Tzeng, Yu-Zhe Hsiao
SEMCO
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Perceptual Shape-Based Natural Image Representation and Retrieval
Human visual recognition is based largely on shape, yet effectively using shapes in natural image retrieval is a challenging task. Most existing methods are based on the geometric...
Xiaofen Zheng, Scott A. Sherrill-Mix, Qigang Gao
CG
1999
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
A distributed device diagnostics system utilizing augmented reality and 3D audio
Augmented Reality brings technology developed for virtual environments into the real world. This approach can be used to provide instructions for routine maintenance and error diag...
Reinhold Behringer, Steven Chen, Venkataraman Sund...
ICPR
2010
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Unsupervised Evaluation Methods Based on Local Gray-Intensity Variances for Binarization of Historical Documents
Abstract--We attempt to evaluate the efficacy of six unsupervised evaluation method to tune Sauvola's threshold in optical character recognition (OCR) applications. We propose...
Marte Alejandro Ramírez-Ortegón, Raul Rojas