Jay H. Bosamiya, Palash Agrawal,
Partha Pratim Roy, R. Balasubramanian
The system can point out areas of interest for text, even if it hasn't seen the language before
Some urban patterns are common but not text
Nature also likes to mess
with us!
Cameras are messy pieces of equipment!
Experimentation
Performs (on average) 79% faster than Stroke Width Operator described by Chen et al
when run against full dataset
Additionally, gives more accurate measurement (fractional stroke widths are supported by Fast SWT, as compared to the purely quantized integer stroke widths in previous algorithms)
Different stages of the technique