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A Method of Detecting Character Data through a Adaboost Learning Method

에이다부스트 학습을 이용한 문자 데이터 검출 방법

  • 장석우 (안양대학교 디지털미디어학과) ;
  • 변시우 (안양대학교 디지털미디어학과)
  • Received : 2017.06.26
  • Accepted : 2017.07.07
  • Published : 2017.07.31
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Abstract

It is a very important task to extract character regions contained in various input color images, because characters can provide significant information representing the content of an image. In this paper, we propose a new method for extracting character regions from various input images using MCT features and an AdaBoost algorithm. Using geometric features, the method extracts actual character regions by filtering out non-character regions from among candidate regions. Experimental results show that the suggested algorithm accurately extracts character regions from input images. We expect the suggested algorithm will be useful in multimedia and image processing-related applications, such as store signboard detection and car license plate recognition.

입력되는 정지 또는 동영상에 포함된 문자 정보는 영상의 내용을 대표하는 주요한 핵심 정보를 제공할 수 있기 때문에 다양한 종류의 영상 데이터를 분석하여 영상 내에 포함된 문자 영역들을 정확하게 추출하는 작업은 매우 중요하다. 본 논문에서는 입력되는 영상으로부터 MCT 특징과 에이다부스트(Adaboost) 알고리즘을 이용하여 문자 영역만을 정확하게 검출하는 새로운 방법을 제안한다. 본 논문에서 제안된 방법에서는 먼저 입력 영상으로부터 MCT 특징과 에이다부스트 알고리즘을 이용하여 문자의 후보 영역들을 추출한다. 그런 다음, 기하학적인 특징을 활용하여 추출된 문자의 후보 영역들로부터 비 문자 영역들을 제외하고 실제적인 문제 영역들만을 검출한다. 실험 결과에서는 제안된 방법이 입력되는 다양한 영상으로부터 기존의 방법보다 문자 영역들을 2.1% 보다 강인하게 추출한다는 것을 보여준다. 본 논문에서 제안된 문자 영역 검출 방법은 상점의 간판 인식, 자동차의 번호판 인식 등과 같은 멀티미디어 및 영상 처리와 관련된 실제 응용 분야에서 매우 유용하게 활용될 것으로 기대된다.

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