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Text particles multi-band fusion for robust text detection

  • Pengfei Xu*
  • , Rongrong Ji
  • , Hongxun Yao
  • , Xiaoshuai Sun
  • , Tianqiang Liu
  • , Xianming Liu
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology

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Abstract

Texts in images and videos usually carry important information for visual content understanding and retrieval. Two main restrictions exist in the state-of-the-art text detection algorithms: weak contrast and text-background variance. This paper presents a robust text detection method based on text particles (TP) multi-band fusion to solve there problems. Firstly, text particles are generated by their local binary pattern of pyramid Haar wavelet coefficients in YUV color space. It preserves and uniforms text-background contrasts while extracting multi-band information. Secondly, the candidate text regions are generated via density-based text particle multi-band fusion, and the LHBP histogram analysis is utilized to remove non-text regions. Our TP-based detection framework can robustly locate text regions regardless of diversity sizes, colors, rotations, illuminations and text-background contrasts. Experiment results on ICDAR 03 over the existing methods demonstrate the robustness and effectiveness of the proposed method.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationImage Analysis and Recognition - 5th International Conference, ICIAR 2008, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages587-596
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)3540698116, 9783540698111
DOIs
StatePublished - 2008
Externally publishedYes
Event5th International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition, ICIAR 2008 - Povoa de Varzim, Portugal
Duration: 25 Jun 200827 Jun 2008

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume5112 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference5th International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition, ICIAR 2008
Country/TerritoryPortugal
CityPovoa de Varzim
Period25/06/0827/06/08

Keywords

  • LHBP
  • Local binary pattern
  • Multi-band fusion
  • Text detection
  • Text particle

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