Digital camera is gradually replacing traditional flat-bed scanner as the main access to obtain text information for its usability, cheapness and high-resolution, there has been a large amount of research done on camera-based text understanding. Unfortunately, arbitrary position of camera lens related to text area can frequently cause perspective distortion which most OCR systems at present cannot manage, thus creating demand for automatic text rectification. Current rectification-related research mainly focused on document images, distortion of natural scene text is seldom considered. In this paper, a scheme for automatic text rectification in natural scene images is proposed. It relies on geometric information extracted from characters themselves as well as their surroundings. For the first step, linear segments are extracted from interested region, and a J-Linkage based clustering is performed followed by some customized refinement to estimate primary vanishing point(VP)s. To achieve a more comprehensive VP estimation, second stage would be performed by inspecting the internal structure of characters which involves analysis on pixels and connected components of text lines. Finally VPs are verified and used to implement perspective rectification. Experiments demonstrate increase of recognition rate and improvement compared with some related algorithms.
Nowadays, video has gradually become the mainstream of dissemination media for its rich information capacity and intelligibility, and texts in videos often carry significant semantic information, thus making great contribution to video content understanding and construction of content-based video retrieval system. Text-based video analyses usually consist of text detection, localization, tracking, segmentation and recognition. There has been a large amount of research done on video text detection and tracking, but most solutions focus on text content processing in static frames, few making full use of redundancy between video frames. In this paper, a unified framework for text detection, localization and tracking in video frames is proposed. We select edge and corner distribution of text blocks as text features, localizing and tracking are performed. By making good use of redundancy between frames, location relations and motion characteristics are determined, thus effectively reduce false-alarm and raise correct rate in localizing. Tracking schemes are proposed for static and rolling texts respectively. Through multi-frame integration, text quality is promoted, so is correct rate of OCR. Experiments demonstrate the reduction of false-alarm and the increase of correct rate of localization and recognition.
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