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http://dx.doi.org/10.9728/dcs.2017.18.4.777

The Slope Extraction and Compensation Based on Adaptive Edge Enhancement to Extract Scene Text Region  

Back, Jaegyung (Department of Computer Science, Gyeongsang National University)
Jang, Jaehyuk (Office of Academy and Intustry Corporation, Gyeongsang National University)
Seo, Yeong Geon (Department of Computer Science, Gyeongsang National University)
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Journal of Digital Contents Society / v.18, no.4, 2017 , pp. 777-785 More about this Journal
Abstract
In the modern real world, we can extract and recognize some texts to get a lot of information from the scene containing them, so the techniques for extracting and recognizing text areas from a scene are constantly evolving. They can be largely divided into texture-based method, connected component method, and mixture of both. Texture-based method finds and extracts text based on the fact that text and others have different values such as image color and brightness. Connected component method is determined by using the geometrical properties after making similar pixels adjacent to each pixel to the connection element. In this paper, we propose a method to adaptively change to improve the accuracy of text region extraction, detect and correct the slope of the image using edge and image segmentation. The method only extracts the exact area containing the text by correcting the slope of the image, so that the extracting rate is 15% more accurate than MSER and 10% more accurate than EEMSER.
Keywords
MSER; EEMSER; Scene text; Slope compensation; Text region extraction;
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