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Character recognition in natural scene images using local description

  • Boyu Zhang*
  • , Wei Zhao
  • , Jia Feng Liu
  • , Rui Wu
  • , Xiang Long Tang
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology

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Abstract

Text information extracted from scene images is often the key clue for better performance of scene understanding and image retrieval. However, the clutter background and variations, which are intrinsic in scene images, make the natural scene character recognition task rather complicated. To overcome these disadvantages, we propose a novel approach for character recognition task in natural scene images. In the method, character classes are described by groups of local features using a probabilistic model. Structures of characters are represented by mutual positions of local features. For model learning, parameter estimating is done through expectation-maximization in a weak-supervised manner. Experiment results over datasets which includes both synthetic and authentic data demonstrate the validity of the approach.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIntelligent Science and Intelligent Data Engineering - Second Sino-Foreign-Interchange Workshop, IScIDE 2011, Revised Selected Papers
Pages193-200
Number of pages8
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes
Event2nd Sino-Foreign-Interchange Workshop on Intelligent Science and Intelligent Data Engineering, IScIDE 2011 - Xi'an, China
Duration: 23 Oct 201125 Oct 2011

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume7202 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference2nd Sino-Foreign-Interchange Workshop on Intelligent Science and Intelligent Data Engineering, IScIDE 2011
Country/TerritoryChina
CityXi'an
Period23/10/1125/10/11

Keywords

  • Gaussian Mixture Model
  • character recognition
  • expectation maximization
  • local description
  • natural scene images

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