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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2012.13.2.872

Character Region Detection Using Structural Features of Hangul Vowel  

Park, Jong-Cheon (Department of Computer Engineering, Chungbuk National University)
Lee, Keun-Wang (Department of the Multimedia Science, Chungwoon University)
Park, Hyoung-Keun (Department of Electronic Engineering, Namseoul University)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.13, no.2, 2012 , pp. 872-877 More about this Journal
Abstract
We proposes the method to detect the Hangul character region from natural image using topological structural feature of Hangul grapheme. First, we transform a natural image to a gray-scale image. Second, feature extraction performed with edge and connected component based method, Edge-based method use a Canny-edge detector and connected component based method applied the local range filtering. Next, if features are not corresponding to the heuristic rule of Hangul character, extracted features filtered out and select candidates of character region. Next, candidates of Hangul character region are merged into one Hangul character using Hangul character merging algorithm. Finally, we detect the final character region by Hangul character class decision algorithm. Experimental result, proposed method could detect a character region effectively in images that contains a complex background and various environments. As a result of the performance evaluation, A proposed method showed advanced results about detection of Hangul character region from mobile image.
Keywords
Character Region; Detection; Hangul; Vowel Structure;
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