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An automatic video text detection, localization and extraction approach

  • Chengjun Zhu*
  • , Ouyang Yuanxin
  • , Lei Gao
  • , Zhenyong Chen
  • , Xiong Zhang
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Beihang University

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Abstract

Text in video is a very compact and accurate clue for video indexing= and summarization. This paper presents an algorithm regarding word group as a special symbol to detect, localize and extract video text using support vector machine (SVM) automatically. First, four sobel operators are applied to get the EM(edge map) of the video frame and the EM is segmented into N×2N size blocks. Then character features and characters group structure features are extracted to construct a 19-dimension feature vector. We use a pre-trained SVM to partition each block into two classes: text and non-text blocks. Secondly a dilatation- shrink process is employed to adjust the text position. Finally text regions are enhanced by multiple frame information. After binarization of enhanced text region, the text region with clean background is recognized by OCR software. Experimental results show that the proposed method can detect, localize, and extract video texts with high accuracy.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvanced Internet Based Systems and Applications - Second International Conference on Signal-Image Technology and Internet-Based Systems, SITIS 2006, Revised Selected Papers
Pages1-9
Number of pages9
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009
Event2nd International Conference on Signal-Image Technology and Internet-Based Systems, SITIS 2006 - Hammamet, Tunisia
Duration: 17 Dec 200621 Dec 2006

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume4879 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference2nd International Conference on Signal-Image Technology and Internet-Based Systems, SITIS 2006
Country/TerritoryTunisia
CityHammamet
Period17/12/0621/12/06

Keywords

  • Multilingual texts
  • Support vector machine(SVM)
  • Video OCR
  • Video text detection

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