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ICPR
2004
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Text Detection from Natural Scene Images: Towards a System for Visually Impaired Persons
We propose a system that reads the text encountered in natural scenes with the aim to provide assistance to the visually impaired persons. This paper describes the system design a...
Nobuo Ezaki, Marius Bulacu, Lambert Schomaker
ICDAR
2005
IEEE
13 years 11 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...
VLDB
2003
ACM
125views Database» more  VLDB 2003»
14 years 6 months ago
THESUS: Organizing Web document collections based on link semantics
Abstract. The requirements for effective search and management of the WWW are stronger than ever. Currently Web documents are classified based on their content not taking into acco...
Maria Halkidi, Benjamin Nguyen, Iraklis Varlamis, ...
ICDAR
2011
IEEE
12 years 5 months ago
A Method of Evaluating Table Segmentation Results Based on a Table Image Ground Truther
—We propose a novel method to evaluate table segmentation results based on a table image ground truther. In the ground-truthing process, we first extract connected components fr...
Yanhui Liang, Yizhou Wang, Eric Saund
DAS
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
A skeleton-based method for multi-oriented video text detection
In this paper, we propose a method based on the skeletonization operation for multi-oriented video text detection. The first step uses our existing Laplacian-based method to ident...
Trung Quy Phan, Palaiahnakote Shivakumara, Chew Li...