Text localization and extraction from complex gray images

Nourbakhsh, Farshad and Pati, Peeta Basa and Ramakrishnan, AG (2006) Text localization and extraction from complex gray images. In: 5th Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing,, Dec 13-16, 2006, Madurai, India, pp. 776-785.

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Abstract

We propose two texture-based approaches, one involving Gabor filters and the other employing log-polar wavelets, for separating text from non-text elements in a document image. Both the proposed algorithms compute local energy at some information-rich points, which are marked by Harris' corner detector. The advantage of this approach is that the algorithm calculates the local energy at selected points and not throughout the image, thus saving a lot of computational time. The algorithm has been tested on a large set of scanned text pages and the results have been seen to be better than the results from the existing algorithms. Among the proposed schemes, the Gabor filter based scheme marginally outperforms the wavelet based scheme.

Item Type:	Conference Paper
Series.:	LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
Publisher:	Springer
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to Springer.
Department/Centre:	Division of Electrical Sciences > Electrical Engineering
Date Deposited:	27 Aug 2010 05:33
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 06:12
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/30505

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