Multimodal video indexing: A review of the state-of-the-art

CGM Snoek, M Worring - Multimedia tools and applications, 2005 - Springer
Efficient and effective handling of video documents depends on the availability of indexes.
Manual indexing is unfeasible for large video collections. In this paper we survey several …

ICDAR 2003 robust reading competitions: entries, results, and future directions

SM Lucas, A Panaretos, L Sosa, A Tang… - International Journal of …, 2005 - Springer
This paper describes the robust reading competitions for ICDAR 2003. With the rapid growth
in research over the last few years on recognizing text in natural scenes, there is an urgent …

Camera-based analysis of text and documents: a survey

J Liang, D Doermann, H Li - International Journal of Document Analysis …, 2005 - Springer
The increasing availability of high-performance, low-priced, portable digital imaging devices
has created a tremendous opportunity for supplementing traditional scanning for document …

Fast and robust text detection in images and video frames

Q Ye, Q Huang, W Gao, D Zhao - Image and vision computing, 2005 - Elsevier
Text in images and video frames carries important information for visual content
understanding and retrieval. In this paper, by using multiscale wavelet features, we propose …

A comprehensive method for multilingual video text detection, localization, and extraction

MR Lyu, J Song, M Cai - … on circuits and systems for video …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Text in video is a very compact and accurate clue for video indexing and summarization.
Most video text detection and extraction methods hold assumptions on text color …

Text detection in images based on unsupervised classification of edge-based features

C Liu, C Wang, R Dai - Eighth International Conference on …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, an algorithm is proposed for detecting texts in images and video frames. It is
performed by three steps: edge detection, text candidate detection and text refinement …

Texture for script identification

A Busch, WW Boles, S Sridharan - IEEE Transactions on …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The problem of determining the script and language of a document image has a number of
important applications in the field of document analysis, such as indexing and sorting of …

Detection of text on road signs from video

W Wu, X Chen, J Yang - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A fast and robust framework for incrementally detecting text on road signs from video is
presented in this paper. This new framework makes two main contributions. 1) The …

Image analysis for efficient categorization of image-based spam e-mail

HB Aradhye, GK Myers… - … Conference on Document …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To circumvent prevalent text-based anti-spam filters, spammers have begun embedding the
advertisement text in images. Analogously, proprietary information (such as source code) …

Rectification and recognition of text in 3-d scenes

GK Myers, RC Bolles, QT Luong, JA Herson… - International Journal of …, 2005 - Springer
Real-world text on street signs, nameplates, etc. often lies in an oblique plane and hence
cannot be recognized by traditional OCR systems due to perspective distortion. Furthermore …