From: Tom Troscianko <Tom.Troscianko@bristol.ac.uk>
To: Color and Vision Network <cvnet@lawton.ewind.com>
Subject: finding text
Dear Hoover
could you please post this on CV-Net for me?
Tom Troscianko
A colleague in machine vision has asked me for advice on how humans go
about detecting the presence of printed text somewhere in the field of
view. There seem to be two obvious possibilities: the texture of the
text itself, which is pretty unique and highly familiar; and/or,
possibly, the proximity to an outline of a page (sharp, rectangular
border).
I suspect it's more the former than the latter, but does anyone know of
some actual work to answer this kind of question?
Cheers
Tom
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Dr Tom Troscianko
Department of Experimental Psychology
University of Bristol
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Bristol BS8 1TN
UK
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