From: Marian Regan <mregan@yorku.ca>
To: Color and Vision Network <cvnet@lawton.ewind.com>
Subject: Re: CVNet - query on detection of text
Bob Steinman and his group at Maryland do work on reading of text in
different situations. Marian Regan
Color and Vision Network wrote:
> 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
> ----------------------
> Dr Tom Troscianko
> Department of Experimental Psychology
> University of Bristol
> 8 Woodland Rd
> Bristol BS8 1TN
> UK
>
> Tom.Troscianko@bristol.ac.uk
>
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