NDLI: Localizing Text in Scene Images by Boundary Clustering, Stroke Segmentation, and String Fragment Classification

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Yi, C. Tian, Y.
Copyright Year	1992
Abstract	In this paper, we propose a novel framework to extract text regions from scene images with complex backgrounds and multiple text appearances. This framework consists of three main steps: boundary clustering (BC), stroke segmentation, and string fragment classification. In BC, we propose a new bigram-color-uniformity-based method to model both text and attachment surface, and cluster edge pixels based on color pairs and spatial positions into boundary layers. Then, stroke segmentation is performed at each boundary layer by color assignment to extract character candidates. We propose two algorithms to combine the structural analysis of text stroke with color assignment and filter out background interferences. Further, we design a robust string fragment classification based on Gabor-based text features. The features are obtained from feature maps of gradient, stroke distribution, and stroke width. The proposed framework of text localization is evaluated on scene images, born-digital images, broadcast video images, and images of handheld objects captured by blind persons. Experimental results on respective datasets demonstrate that the framework outperforms state-of-the-art localization algorithms.
Sponsorship	IEEE Signal Processing Society
Page Count	13
File Size	1553664
Starting Page	4256
Ending Page	4268
File Format	PDF
ISSN	10577149
Volume Number	21
Issue Number	9
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2012-09-01
Publisher Place	U.S.A.
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Image color analysis Clustering algorithms Algorithm design and analysis Image edge detection Feature extraction Gabor filters Classification algorithms text localization Bigram color uniformity boundary clustering (BC) color assignment Gabor-based text features string fragment classification stroke segmentation
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design Software

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