• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.139-142
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• 2006

본 연구는 장면 이미지로부터 텍스트에 존재하는 문자-에지 특징을 이용하여 텍스트를 추출하는 방법을 제안한다. 캐니(Canny)에지 연산자를 이용하여 장면 이미지로부터 에지를 추출하고, 추출된 에지로부터 16종류의 에지-맵 생성한다. 생성된 에지 맵을 재구성하여 문자 특징을 갖는 8종류의 문자-에지 맵을 만단다. 텍스트는 배경과 잘 분리되는 특징이 있으므로 텍스트에 존재하는 '문자-에지 맵'의 특징을 이용하여 텍스트를 추출한다. 텍스트 영역에 대한 검증은 문자-에지 맵의 분포와 텍스트에 존재하는 글자간의 공백 특징으로 한다. 제안한 방법은 다양한 종류의 장면 이미지를 실험대상으로 하였고, 텍스트는 적어도 2글자 이상으로 구성된다는 제한조건과 너무 크거나 작은 텍스트는 텍스트 추출에서 제외하였다. 실험결과 텍스트 영역 추출률은 약 83%를 얻었다.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.777-785
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• 2017

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.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2007.06a
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• pp.161-163
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• 2007

기존의 텍스트 추출을 위한 이진화 방법은 입력 이미지를 명도 이미지로 변환한 뒤 이진화 하는 방법을 사용하였다. 이러한 방법은 칼라 이미지에서는 극명히 구분되는 색이라 할지라도 명도 이미지로 변환하는 과정에서 같은 밝기를 같게 되는 경우(예를 들어, 배경은 붉은색, 텍스트는 초록색), 텍스트를 추출하는 데 어려움이 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 입력 이미지를 R, G, B로 분리하고 각각을 이진화 하여 텍스트를 추출하고 다해상도 웨이블릿(Wavelet) 변환을 이용하여 텍스트의 획 특징을 추출하여 추출된 특징들을 SVM(Support Vector Machine) 분류기로 검증하여 최종 텍스트 영역을 확정한다. 제안한 방법을 적용함으로써 명도 정보만으로는 추출하기 어려웠던 텍스트 영역을 효과적으로 추출하고 텍스트와 구별하기 어려운 영역을 획수준으로 검증할 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.847-852
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• 2010

Text in natural images has a various and important feature of image. Therefore, to detect text and extraction of text, recognizing it is a studied as an important research area. Lately, many applications of various fields is being developed based on mobile phone camera technology. Detecting edge component form gray-scale image and detect an boundary of text regions by local standard deviation and get an connected components using Euclidean distance of RGB color space. Labeling the detected edges and connected component and get bounding boxes each regions. Candidate of text achieved with heuristic rule of text. Detected candidate text regions was merged for generation for one candidate text region, then text region detected with verifying candidate text region using ectilarity characterization of adjacency and ectilarity between candidate text regions. Experctental results, We improved text region detection rate using completentary of edge and color connected component.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.31 no.4
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• pp.420-438
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• 2004

Artificially or naturally contained texts in the natural images have significant and detailed information about the scenes. If we develop a method that can extract and recognize those texts in real-time, the method can be applied to many important applications. In this paper, we suggest a new method that extracts the text areas in the natural images using the low-level image features of color continuity. gray-level variation and color valiance and that verifies the extracted candidate regions by using the high-level text feature such as stroke. And the two level features are combined hierarchically. The color continuity is used since most of the characters in the same text lesion have the same color, and the gray-level variation is used since the text strokes are distinctive in their gray-values to the background. Also, the color variance is used since the text strokes are distinctive in their gray-values to the background, and this value is more sensitive than the gray-level variations. The text level stroke features are extracted using a multi-resolution wavelet transforms on the local image areas and the feature vectors are input to a SVM(Support Vector Machine) classifier for the verification. We have tested the proposed method using various kinds of the natural images and have confirmed that the extraction rates are very high even in complex background images.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.32 no.6
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• pp.502-511
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• 2005

In this paper, we propose a hybrid analysis method(HAM) based on gray-intensity information from natural scene images. The HAM is composed of GIA(Gray-intensity Information Analysis) and SMA(Split/Merge Analysis). Our experimental results show that the proposed approach is superior to conventional methods both in simple and complex images.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.951-959
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• 2015

Scene text extraction is important because it offers some important information on different image based applications pouring in current smart generation. Edge-Enhanced MSER(Maximally Stable Extremal Regions) which enhances the boundaries using the canny operator after extracting the basic MSER shows excellent performance in terms of text extraction. But according to setting the threshold of the canny operator, the result images using Edge-Enhanced MSER are different, so there needs a method figuring out the threshold. In this paper, we propose a AEMSER(Adaptive Edge-enhanced MSER) that applies the method extracting the boundary using the middle value of histogram to Edge-Enhanced MSER to get the canny operator's threshold. The proposed method can acquire better result images than the existing methods because it extracts the area only for the obvious boundaries.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.07e
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• pp.1835-1838
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• 2003

Texts in natural images contain significant and detailed informations about the images. Thus, to extract those texts correctly, we suggest a text extraction method using color variance feature. Generally, the texts in images have color variations with the backgrounds. Thus, if we express those variations in 3 dimensional RGB color space, we can emphasize the text regions that can be hard to be captured with a method using intensity variations in the gray-level images. We can even make robust extraction results with the images contaminated by light variations. The color variations are measured by color variance in this paper. First, horizontal and vertical variance images are obtained independently, and we can fine that the text regions have high values of the variances in both directions. Then, the two images are logically ANDed to remove the non-text components with only one directional high variance. We have applied the proposed method to the multiple kinds of the natural images, and we confirmed that the proposed feature can help to find the text regions that can he missed with the following features - intensity variations in the gray-level images and/or color continuity in the color images.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2019.06a
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• pp.80-81
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• 2019

본 논문에서는 자연스러운 장면 영상에서 임의의 방향성을 가진 텍스트를 검출하기 위한 기법을 제안한다. 텍스트 검출을 위한 기본적인 프레임 워크는 Faster R-CNN[1]을 기반으로 한다. 먼저 RPN(Region Proposal Network)을 통해 다른 방향성을 가진 텍스트를 포함하는 bounding box를 생성한다. 이어서 RPN에서 생성한 각각의 bounding box에 대해 세 가지의 서로 다른 크기로 pooling된 특징지도를 추출하고 병합한다. 병합한 특징지도에서 텍스트와 텍스트가 아닌 대상에 대한 score, 정렬된 bounding box 좌표, 기울어진 bounding box 좌표를 모두 예측한다. 마지막으로 NMS(Non-Maximum Suppression)을 이용하여 검출 결과를 획득한다. COCO Text 2017 dataset[2]을 이용하여 학습 및 테스트를 진행하였으며 주관적으로 평가한 결과 기울어진 텍스트에 적합하게 회전된 영역을 얻을 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Communication Sciences Conference
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• 2006.07a
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• pp.449-449
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• 2006