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ICDAR
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Text Extraction from Name Cards with Complex Design
This paper addresses the problem of text extraction from name card images with fanciful design containing complicated color background and reverse contrast regions. The proposed m...
Lin Lin, Chew Lim Tan
CCECE
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Hardware Edge Detection using an Altera Stratix NIOS2 Development Kit
— Edge detection is a computer vision algorithm that is very processor intensive. It is possible to increase the speed of the algorithm by using hardware parallelism. This paper ...
Jay Kraut
SMC
2007
IEEE
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13 years 10 months ago
Logarithmic edge detection with applications
—In real world machine vision problems, numerous issues such as variable scene illumination make edge and object detection difficult. There exists no universal edge detection met...
Eric J. Wharton, Karen Panetta, Sos S. Agaian
ISM
2008
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Robust Edge Detection Based on Non-local Contribution of Local Frequency Characteristics
This paper introduces a robust approach to the problem of edge detection in situations characterized by high levels of image degradation and illumination non-uniformity. Popular e...
Alexander Wong, William Bishop
DAGM
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Fast and Accurate 3D Edge Detection for Surface Reconstruction
Although edge detection is a well investigated topic, 3D edge detectors mostly lack either accuracy or speed. We will show, how to build a highly accurate subvoxel edge detector, w...
Christian Bähnisch, Peer Stelldinger, Ullrich...
ARTCOM
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Image Segmentation - A Survey of Soft Computing Approaches
—Soft Computing is an emerging field that consists of complementary elements of fuzzy logic, neural computing and evolutionary computation. Soft computing techniques have found w...
N. Senthilkumaran, R. Rajesh
ICPR
2002
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Synergism in Low Level Vision
Guiding image segmentation with edge information is an often employed strategy in low level computer vision. To improve the trade-off between the sensitivity of homogeneous region...
Christopher M. Christoudias, Bogdan Georgescu, Pet...
ICIP
2002
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
A new approach for video text detection
Text detection is fundamental to video information retrieval and indexing. Existing methods cannot handle well those texts with different contrast or embedded in a complex backgro...
Michael R. Lyu, Jiqiang Song, Min Cai
ICIP
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Edge detection and processing using shearlets
It is now widely acknowledged that wavelets are not very effective in representing images containing distributed discontinuities such as edges. This paper deals with a new multisc...
Sheng Yi, Demetrio Labate, Glenn R. Easley, Hamid ...
ECCV
2002
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Representing Edge Models via Local Principal Component Analysis
Edge detection depends not only upon the assumed model of what an edge is, but also on how this model is represented. The problem of how to represent the edge model is typically ne...
Patrick S. Huggins, Steven W. Zucker