With the increasing popularity of practical vision systems and smart phones, text detection in
natural scenes becomes a critical yet challenging task. Most existing methods have focused …

Filed: Jun. 28, 2011 A particular method includes receiving image data from an image
capture device and detecting text within the image (60) Provisional application No …

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Multioriented text detection in video frames is not as easy as detection of captions or
graphics or overlaid texts, which usually appears in the horizontal direction and has high …

In accord with embodiments consistent with the present invention, a first action in
recognizing text from image and video is to locate accurately the position of the text in image …

In this paper, we propose a text detection method based on a feature vector generated from
connected components produced via the stroke width transform. Several properties, such as …

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Particle filtering (PF) and kernel based object tracking (KBOT) algorithms have shown their
promises in a wide range of visual tracking contexts. This paper mainly addresses the …

Text in scene images can provide useful and vital information for content-based image
analysis. Therefore, localization of text in images is an important task. In this paper, we …