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Arbitrary direction text line detection method in natural image

A technology of arbitrary direction and natural image, applied in the direction of instruments, character and pattern recognition, computer components, etc., can solve the problems of unfixed position, poor detection effect, large limitations, etc.

Inactive Publication Date: 2013-06-05
ZHEJIANG UNIV
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The method based on color clustering assumes that the text color in the video frame is uniform, but this assumption is not true in most cases, so its application is limited
Since the effect of subtitle detection using one feature is not ideal, many methods use the above features in combination
[0004] The above text detection methods have made some useful attempts, but due to the characteristics of natural scene texts that are not strong in discrimination from the background, arbitrary in direction, and not fixed in position, these methods are not effective in detecting text in any direction in natural images. good

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[0180] like figure 2 , 3 As shown in , 4, for a certain natural image, an example of the process of identifying subtitles contained in it is given. Below in conjunction with the method of the present invention describe in detail the concrete steps that this example implements, as follows:

[0181] For a natural image, as attached figure 2 as shown in (a),

[0182] (1) Using the constrained maximum stable extreme region MSER detection method in claim 2 to obtain all candidate text regions, the results are shown in the attached figure 2 as shown in (b);

[0183] (2) Combining the definition of similarity in claim 2 and the sibling determination method in claim 3, using the seed connected region detection in claim 3, the seed region of the candidate text line obtained is shown in Figure 2(c) .

[0184] (3) Adopting the candidate text line expansion method in claim 3, all candidate text lines obtained are as follows: figure 2 (d) shown.

[0185] (4) For any candidate t...

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The invention discloses an arbitrary direction text line detection method in a natural image. The arbitrary direction text line detection method in the natural image comprises the following steps: (1) candidate text areas are detected through a maximum stable extreme area detection method with restriction, compound similarity among area pairs is obtained according to combination with size of the areas, absolute distance, relative distance, geometric similarity in a contextual information definition area and color similarity; (2) three areas are found, serve as seed areas of a candidate text line and are expanded to all areas in the line through a candidate text line identification method based on the similarity; and (3) non-text lines are removed through a filter based on morphologic framework characteristics, the filter conducts filtering through a sparse classifier and characteristic vectors required by the classifier are taken from the morphologic framework characteristics in all areas of the candidate text line. The arbitrary direction text line detection method in the natural image can detect text in arbitrary directions in the natural image. In addition, due to adoption of the area interior characteristic structured classifier, better identification accuracy can be achieved.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to a method for detecting text lines in an arbitrary direction in a natural image. The method is used to detect scene text in an arbitrary direction in a natural image for OCR recognition, and belongs to the field of computer image processing. Background technique [0002] With the development of multimedia and electronic industries, more and more image information is produced. How to effectively organize and retrieve them becomes a difficult problem. Many image materials contain text information, such as book covers, street signs, buildings (with name information), etc. These text information are closely related to image content. If these text information can be effectively detected and recognized, they can be used to organize and retrieve image data, which has strong practical value. [0003] Word / text detection can be divided into three methods: gradient-based methods, color-clustering-based methods, and texture-based methods...

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IPC IPC(8): G06K9/20G06K9/62
Inventor 魏宝刚庄越挺袁杰张引
Owner ZHEJIANG UNIV
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