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http://dx.doi.org/10.4218/etrij.11.1510.0029

Touch TT: Scene Text Extractor Using Touchscreen Interface  

Jung, Je-Hyun (Department of Computer Science, KAIST)
Lee, Seong-Hun (Department of Computer Science, KAIST)
Cho, Min-Su (Department of Computer Science, KAIST)
Kim, Jin-Hyung (Department of Computer Science, KAIST)
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ETRI Journal / v.33, no.1, 2011 , pp. 78-88 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, we present the Touch Text exTractor (Touch TT), an interactive text segmentation tool for the extraction of scene text from camera-based images. Touch TT provides a natural interface for a user to simply indicate the location of text regions with a simple touchline. Touch TT then automatically estimates the text color and roughly locates the text regions. By inferring text characteristics from the estimated text color and text region, Touch TT can extract text components. Touch TT can also handle partially drawn lines which cover only a small section of text area. The proposed system achieves reasonable accuracy for text extraction from moderately difficult examples from the ICDAR 2003 database and our own database.
Keywords
Scene text recognition; touchscreen interface;
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