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Text localization, enhancement and binarization in multimedia documents

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An algorithm to localize artificial text in images and videos using a measure of accumulated gradients and morphological post processing to detect the text is presented and the quality of the localized text is improved by robust multiple frame integration.
Abstract
The systems currently available for content based image and video retrieval work without semantic knowledge, i.e. they use image processing methods to extract low level features of the data. The similarity obtained by these approaches does not always correspond to the similarity a human user would expect. A way to include more semantic knowledge into the indexing process is to use the text included in the images and video sequences. It is rich in information but easy to use, e.g. by key word based queries. In this paper we present an algorithm to localize artificial text in images and videos using a measure of accumulated gradients and morphological post processing to detect the text. The quality of the localized text is improved by robust multiple frame integration. Anew technique for the binarization of the text boxes is proposed. Finally, detection and OCR results for a commercial OCR are presented.

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IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence

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TL;DR: This special issue aims at gathering the recent advances in learning with shared information methods and their applications in computer vision and multimedia analysis and addressing interesting real-world computer Vision and multimedia applications.
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Goal-directed evaluation of binarization methods

TL;DR: This paper presents a methodology for evaluation of low-level image analysis methods, using binarization (two-level thresholding) as an example, and defines the performance of the character recognition module as the objective measure.
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Automatic text location in images and video frames

TL;DR: Compared with some traditional text location methods, this method has the following advantages: 1) low computational cost; 2) robust to font size; and 3) high accuracy.