Text detection and recognition from natural sceneshemanthmcqueen
Text characters in natural scenes and surroundings provide us with valuable information about the place and even provide us with some legal/important information. Hence it’s very important for us to detect such text and recognise them which helps a lot. But , it’s not really easy to recognize those text information because of the diverse backgrounds and fonts used for the text. In this paper, a method is proposed to extract the text information from the surroundings. First, a character descriptor is designed with existing standard detectors and descriptors. Then, character structure is modeled at each character class by designing stroke configuration maps.In natural scenes , the text part is generally found on nearby sign boards and other objects. The extraction of such text is difficult because of noisy backgrounds and diverse fonts and text sizes. But many applications have been proven to be efficient in extraction of text from surroundings. For this , the method of text extraction is divided into two processes;
Text detection
Text recognition
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Text detection and recognition from natural sceneshemanthmcqueen
Text characters in natural scenes and surroundings provide us with valuable information about the place and even provide us with some legal/important information. Hence it’s very important for us to detect such text and recognise them which helps a lot. But , it’s not really easy to recognize those text information because of the diverse backgrounds and fonts used for the text. In this paper, a method is proposed to extract the text information from the surroundings. First, a character descriptor is designed with existing standard detectors and descriptors. Then, character structure is modeled at each character class by designing stroke configuration maps.In natural scenes , the text part is generally found on nearby sign boards and other objects. The extraction of such text is difficult because of noisy backgrounds and diverse fonts and text sizes. But many applications have been proven to be efficient in extraction of text from surroundings. For this , the method of text extraction is divided into two processes;
Text detection
Text recognition
Texture features based text extraction from images using DWT and K-means clus...Divya Gera
Text extraction from different kind of images document, caption and scene text images. Discret wavelet transform was used to exract horizontal, vertical and diagonal features and k-means clustering was used to cluster the features into text and background cluster. For simple images k = 2 worked i.e. text and backgroud cluster while for complex images k=3 was used i.e. text cluster, complex background ad simple background.
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identification has grown to be individual of the mainly flourishing applications of knowledge in the field of
pattern detection and artificial intelligence. In our survey we study on the various OCR techniques. In this
paper we resolve and examine the hypothetical and numerical models of Optical Character Identification.
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techniques are generally utilized for the recognition of patterns or alphabets. In general the alphabets are
in the variety of pixel pictures and it could be either handwritten or stamped, of any series, shape or
direction etc. Alternatively in MCR the alphabets are stamped with magnetic ink and the studying machine
categorize the alphabet on the basis of the exclusive magnetic field that is shaped by every alphabet. Both
MCR and OCR discover utilization in banking and different trade appliances. Earlier exploration going on
Optical Character detection or recognition has shown that the In Handwritten text there is no limitation
lying on the script technique. Hand written correspondence is complicated to be familiar through due to
diverse human handwriting style, disparity in angle, size and shape of calligraphy. An assortment of
approaches of Optical Character Identification is discussed here all along through their achievement.
With so much of our lives computerized, it is vitally important that machines and humans can understand one another and pass information back and forth. Mostly computers have things their way we have to & talk to them through relatively crude devices such as keyboards and mice so they can figure out what we want them to do. However, when it comes to processing more human kinds of information, like an old-fashioned printed book or a letter scribbled with a fountain pen, computers have to work much harder. That is where optical character recognition (OCR) comes in. Here we process the image, where we apply various pre-processing techniques like desk wing, binarization etc. and algorithms like Tesseract to recognize the characters and give us the final document. T.Gnana Prakash | K. Anusha"Text Extraction from Image using Python" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-1 | Issue-6 , October 2017, URL: http://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd2501.pdf http://www.ijtsrd.com/computer-science/simulation/2501/text-extraction-from-image-using-python/tgnana-prakash
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A STUDY ON OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION TECHNIQUESijcsitcejournal
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is the process which enables a system to without human intervention
identifies the scripts or alphabets written into the users’ verbal communication. Optical Character
identification has grown to be individual of the mainly flourishing applications of knowledge in the field of
pattern detection and artificial intelligence. In our survey we study on the various OCR techniques. In this
paper we resolve and examine the hypothetical and numerical models of Optical Character Identification.
The Optical character identification or classification (OCR) and Magnetic Character Recognition (MCR)
techniques are generally utilized for the recognition of patterns or alphabets. In general the alphabets are
in the variety of pixel pictures and it could be either handwritten or stamped, of any series, shape or
direction etc. Alternatively in MCR the alphabets are stamped with magnetic ink and the studying machine
categorize the alphabet on the basis of the exclusive magnetic field that is shaped by every alphabet. Both
MCR and OCR discover utilization in banking and different trade appliances. Earlier exploration going on
Optical Character detection or recognition has shown that the In Handwritten text there is no limitation
lying on the script technique. Hand written correspondence is complicated to be familiar through due to
diverse human handwriting style, disparity in angle, size and shape of calligraphy. An assortment of
approaches of Optical Character Identification is discussed here all along through their achievement.
With so much of our lives computerized, it is vitally important that machines and humans can understand one another and pass information back and forth. Mostly computers have things their way we have to & talk to them through relatively crude devices such as keyboards and mice so they can figure out what we want them to do. However, when it comes to processing more human kinds of information, like an old-fashioned printed book or a letter scribbled with a fountain pen, computers have to work much harder. That is where optical character recognition (OCR) comes in. Here we process the image, where we apply various pre-processing techniques like desk wing, binarization etc. and algorithms like Tesseract to recognize the characters and give us the final document. T.Gnana Prakash | K. Anusha"Text Extraction from Image using Python" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-1 | Issue-6 , October 2017, URL: http://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd2501.pdf http://www.ijtsrd.com/computer-science/simulation/2501/text-extraction-from-image-using-python/tgnana-prakash
Face detection basedon image processing by using the segmentation methods for detection of the various types of the faces to helpfull for the many different careers and it will easy to do.
IOSR Journal of Computer Engineering (IOSR-JCE) is a double blind peer reviewed International Journal that provides rapid publication (within a month) of articles in all areas of computer engineering and its applications. The journal welcomes publications of high quality papers on theoretical developments and practical applications in computer technology. Original research papers, state-of-the-art reviews, and high quality technical notes are invited for publications.
International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) is an open access online peer reviewed international journal that publishes research and review articles in the fields of Computer Science, Neural Networks, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Plastic Engineering, Food Technology, Textile Engineering, Nano Technology & science, Power Electronics, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Computational mathematics, Image processing, Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering, VLSI Testing & Low Power VLSI Design etc.
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scene images. Then histogram based threshold is applied to separate text background of the images.
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binarization of the enhanced image to highlight the foreground information, using Otsu
thresholding algorithm. In the second phase Segmentation is carried out using Drop Fall and
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degraded epigraphic images and works well giving better enhanced output for, 4x4 mask size
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Scene text recognition brings various new challenges occurs in recent years. Detecting and recognizing text in scenes entails some of the equivalent problems as document processing, but there are also numerous novel problems to face for ecognizing text in natural scene images. Recent research in these regions has exposed several promise but present is motionless much effort to be entire in these regions. Most existing techniques have focused on detecting horizontal or near-horizontal texts. In this paper, we propose a new scheme which detects texts of arbitrary directions in natural scene images. Our algorithm is equipped with two sets of characteristics specially designed for capturing both the natural characteristics of texts using
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COHESIVE MULTI-ORIENTED TEXT DETECTION AND RECOGNITION STRUCTURE IN NATURAL S...ijdpsjournal
Scene text recognition brings various new challenges occurs in recent years. Detecting and recognizing text
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Design and implementation of optical character recognition using template mat...eSAT Journals
Abstract
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Keywords- OCR, Feature Extraction, Classification
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Detecting text from natural images with Stroke Width Transform
1. Detecting Text in Natural Scenes with Stroke Width
Transform
Presented by,
POOJA G N
2. Overview
• Introduction
• Steps involved in text detection algorithm
• Edge map
• Stroke width transform
• Finding letter candidates
• Grouping letter candidates
• Strength and weakness of SWT
• Results
• Applications
• References
3. Introduction
• With the increasing use of digital image capturing devices,
content-based image analysis techniques are receiving intensive
attention in recent years.
• As indicative marks in natural scene images, text information
provides brief and significant clues for many image-based
applications.
• We present a image operator that seeks to find the value of
stroke width for each image pixel, and demonstrate its use on
the task of text detection in natural images.
4. Introduction(contd.,)
Current text detection approaches can be roughly classified into three groups:
Region-based approaches
This attempt to use similarity criterions of text, such as color, size, stroke
width, edge and gradient information, to gather pixels.
Texture based approaches
This utilize distinct textural properties of text regions to extract candidate
sub-windows and the final outputs are formed by merging these sub-windows.
Hybrid approaches
This take advantages of both region-based approaches which can closely
cover text regions and texture-based approaches which can estimate
coarse text location in scenes.
7. 2. Edge map
Here we use Canny Edge detection algorithm.
The Canny edge detector is an edge detection operator that uses
a multi-stage algorithm to detect a wide range of edges in images.
Input image Edge detected image
8. 3. Stroke Width Transform
SWT is a local operator which calculates for each pixel the width of the most likely
stroke containing the pixel.
(a).
(b).
(c).
Figures shows the implementation of the SWT
where
(a) A typical stroke. The pixels of the stroke in
this example are darker than the background
pixels.
(b) p is a pixel on the boundary of the stroke.
Searching in the direction of the gradient at
p, leads to finding q, and the
corresponding pixel on the other side of the
stroke.
(c) Each pixel along the ray is assigned by the
minimum of its current value and the
found width of the stroke.
9. The rules to components are as follows:
• The variance of the stroke-width within a
component must not be too big.
• The aspect ratio of a component must be within a
small range of values, in order to reject long and
narrow components.
• Components whose size is too large or too small
will also be ignored.
4. Finding Letter Candidate
10. 5. Grouping letter candidates into regions of text
• Grouping the pixels into letter candidates based on their stroke width.
• The grouping of the image will be done by using a Connected Component algorithm.
• The image partition creates a set of connected components from an input
image, including both text characters and unwanted noises.
• We perform structural analysis of text strings to distinguish connected
components representing text characters from those representing noises.
• Assuming that a text string has at least three characters in alignment, we
develop two methods to locate regions containing text strings: adjacent
character grouping and text line grouping.
11. Grouping letter candidates into regions of text(contd.,)
• Group closely positioned letter candidates into regions of text.
• Filters out many falsely-identified letter candidates, and improves the
reliability of the algorithm results.
The rules to pair the letters are as follows:
• Two letter candidates should have similar
stroke width.
• The distance between letters must not
exceed three times the width of the wider
one.
• Characters of the same word are expected
to have a similar color; therefore we
compare the average color of the candidates
for pairing.
13. Strengths of SWT
• The SW Detector can detect letters of different languages (English, Hebrew, Arabic etc.)
• The text can be of varying sizes.
• The text can be of different orientation, including curvy text.
• Even handwriting can be detected.
Weakness of SWT
• Appearance of noise.
• Foliage resembles letters.
• Does not handle round and curved letters.
• Small and close letters tend to be grouped together in the SW labeling phase and these
groups may be dismissed in the ‘finding letter candidates’ phase.
15. Applications
Mobile text recognition
Content-based web image search
Automatic geocoding
Robotic navigation
License plate reading
16. References
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