• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.14 no.9
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• pp.21-28
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• 2009

Color polarity classification is a process to determine whether the color of text is bright or dark and it is prerequisite task for text extraction. In this paper we propose a color polarity method to extract text region. Based on the observation for the text and background regions, the proposed method uses the ratios of sizes and standard deviations of bright and dark regions. At first, we employ Otsu's method for binarization for gray scale input region. The two largest segments among the bright and the dark regions are selected and the ratio of their sizes is defined as the first measure for color polarity classification. Again, we select the segments that have the smallest standard deviation of the distance from the center among two groups of regions and evaluate the ratio of their standard deviation as the second measure. We use these two ratio features to determine the text color polarity. The proposed method robustly classify color polarity of the text. which has shown by experimental result for the various font and size.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.13B no.3 s.106
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• pp.205-214
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• 2006

Texts in images have significant and detailed information about the scenes, and if we can automatically detect and recognize those texts in real-time, it can be used in various applications. In this paper, we propose a new text detection method that can find texts from the various camera-captured images and propose a text segmentation method from the detected text regions. The detection method proposes color variance as a detection feature in RGB color space, and the segmentation method suggests an improved K-means color clustering in RGB color space. We have tested the proposed methods using various kinds of document style and natural scene images captured by digital cameras and mobile-phone camera, and we also tested the method with a portion of ICDAR[1] contest images.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.346-349
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• 2003

본 논문은 실내외에서 얻어진 자연 영상으로부터 텍스트를 추출하는 방법과 추출되어진 텍스트가 기울어져 있을 경우 기울기 각도를 추정하고 보정하는 방법을 제안한다 이런 모든 과정은 4단계로 수행된다. 명도 이미지를 대상으로 첫째 자연 영상에서 에지 검출 처리를 위한 전처리 단계와 둘째 에지 검출과 세선화를 통한 잡음영상 및 선 제거, 텍스트 특징을 이용한 후보영역 검출단계로 이루어지고 셋째 그 텍스트 후보영역 안에서 이진화를 수행하고 불필요한 비텍스트 연결 요소를 추려내어 제거 함으로써 텍스트를 추출한다. 마지막은 후처리로써 추출된 텍스트의 기울기 각도를 추정하고 추정 된 각도만큼 회전함으로써 기울어진 텍스트를 보정한다 본 연구는 다양한 자연 영상을 대상으로 실험한 결과, 본 논문의 유용성과 정확한 텍스트추출을 확인하였다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.13B no.4 s.107
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• pp.409-416
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• 2006

In this paper, we propose an algorithm for extracting text regions from spam-mail images using color layer. The CLTE(color layer-based text extraction) divides the input image into eight planes as color layers. It extracts connected components on the eight images, and then classifies them into text regions and non-text regions based on the component sizes. We also propose an algorithm for recovering damaged text strokes from the extracted text image. In the binary image, there are two types of damaged strokes: (1) middle strokes such as 'ㅣ' or 'ㅡ' are deleted, and (2) the first and/or last strokes such as 'ㅇ' or 'ㅁ' are filled with black pixels. An experiment with 200 spam-mail images shows that the proposed approach is more accurate than conventional methods by over 10%.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.559-571
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• 2013

This paper has presented a few problems when the 2D video superimposed the overlay text was converted to the 3D stereoscopic video. To resolve the problems, it proposes the scenario which the original video is divided into two parts, one is the video only with overlay text graphic region and the other is the video with holes, and then processed respectively. And this paper focuses on research only to detect and extract the overlay text graphic region, which is a first step among the processes in the proposed scenario. To decide whether the overlay text is included or not within a frame, it is used the corner density map based on the Harris corner detector. Following that, the overlay text region is extracted using the hybrid method of color and motion information of the overlay text region. The experiment shows the results of the overlay text region detection and extraction process in a few genre video sequence.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2002.11c
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• pp.2289-2292
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• 2002

최근 웹을 기반으로 한 문서의 전자화가 이루어지면서 기존의 전통적인 펜기반 교정 시스템 또한 온라인상의 전자 문서 환경에 맞게 변화하고 있다. 이러한 펜기반 입력 기법을 사용하는 교정 시스템에서는 일반문서와 달리 웹 문서의 구조정보를 고려한 편집이 지원되어야 하며 또한 교정부호와 텍스트간의 정확한 영역 인식이 이루어져야 한다. 본 연구에서는 온라인 교정 시스템 모델링을 통하여 온라인 환경에 적합한 교정 부호를 정의하고, 교정 대상 텍스트 영역을 편집 가능한 단위로 구분하여 효율적인 편집 연산이 이루어 질 수 있도록 하였다. 또한 웹 기반의 구조문서(HTML/XML) 편집 환경을 고려하여 편집으로 인한 문서의 구조 정보 변경을 지원하기 위하여 텍스트를 비구조 및 구조정보 텍스트로 분류하여 정의하였다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 모델에 기반하여 교정 부호의 특성에 따른 가변적인 편집 텍스트 영역 인식 규칙 모델을 정의하여 교정 부호와 편집 텍스트 영역간의 모호성을 최소화하고, 편집으로 인한 문서의 구조 정보 변경을 지원하는 시스템을 구현하였다. 결과적으로 온라인 웹 문서 환경에서 펜기반의 모호한 교정 부호의 입력을 인지적인 관점에서 해석하여 보다 정확한 교정 작업 수행을 지원하도록 하였다.

• 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:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.13 no.7
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• pp.499-507
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• 2007

In the areas of CAE, CAD and CAO integration & automation technology, the word 'File Wrapping' means a virtualization of TEXT files that supports variables-based I/Os like variable assignments in programming languages. This File Wrapping process is one of the cornerstones of CAE, CAD and GAO integration & automation, and the performance of File Wrapping process, which is depending on the sire of a TEXT file to be accessed and the number of regions and their distribution, has a critical effect on the total performance of the CAE, CAD and CAO integration & automation systems. In this paper, we define TEXT File Region Management which generalizes the main functions of the File Wrapping process, and describe a prototype of TEXT file Region Management which is implemented as a Grid service. After that, the validity of the proposed model and the TEXT File Region Management service are discussed with evaluation results of the prototype.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.215-218
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• 2004

본 논문은 실내외에서 얻어진 자연 영상으로부터 기울어진 영상을 바로 보정하고 텍스트를 추출하는 방법을 제안한다. 본 연구는 명도 이미지를 대상으로 모든 과정이 4단계로 이루어진다. 첫째 자연 영상에서 에지 검출 처리를 위한 전처리 및 Canny 에지 추출을 수행하며, 둘째 영상의 기울기를 추출하기 위해 허프변환에 대한 전처리와 후처리를 한 후, 셋째로 잡음영상과 선을 제거하고 텍스트 특징을 이용한 후보영역 검출을 한다. 마지막으로 텍스트 후보영역 안에서 지역적 이진화를 수행하여 불필요한 비텍스트 연결 요소를 추려내기 위해 두 가지 텍스트 추출 방법을 수행한다. 본 연구는 게시판, 교통표지판, 책 표지 등 100장의 자연영상을 대상으로 실험한 결과 텍스트 추출에서 90.3% 추출 정확도를 가졌으며, 기울어진 각도 추출에서도 94.3%의 높은 추출률을 보였다.

• 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.