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Vision-Based Text Segmentation System for Generic Display Units

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Bioinspired Applications in Artificial and Natural Computation (IWINAC 2009)

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The increasing use of display units in avionics motivate the need for vision-based text recognition systems to assist humans. The system for generic displays proposed in this paper includes some of the usual text recognition steps, namely localization, extraction and enhancement, and optical character recognition. The proposal has been fully developed and tested on a multi-display simulator. The commercial OCR module from Matrox Imaging Library has been used to validate the textual displays segmentation proposal.

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    José Carlos Castillo, María T. López & Antonio Fernández-Caballero

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  1. Dapartamento de Inteligencia Artificial, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, E.T.S. de Ingeniería Informática, Juan del Rosal, 16, 28040, Madrid, Spain

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  2. Departamento de Electrónica, Tecnología de Computadores y Proyectos, Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena,, Pl. Hospital, 1, 30201, Cartagena, Spain

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Castillo, J.C., López, M.T., Fernández-Caballero, A. (2009). Vision-Based Text Segmentation System for Generic Display Units. In: Mira, J., Ferrández, J.M., Álvarez, J.R., de la Paz, F., Toledo, F.J. (eds) Bioinspired Applications in Artificial and Natural Computation. IWINAC 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5602. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02267-8_25

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