[go: up one dir, main page]
More Web Proxy on the site http://driver.im/

Wang et al., 2003 - Google Patents

Character location in scene images from digital camera

Wang et al., 2003

Document ID
16279605826864710100
Author
Wang K
Kangas J
Publication year
Publication venue
Pattern recognition

External Links

Snippet

In this paper, a robust, connected-component-based character locating method is presented. It is an important part of an optical character recognition (OCR) system. Color clustering is used to separate the color image into homogeneous color layers. Next, for each color layer …
Continue reading at www.sciencedirect.com (other versions)

Classifications

    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING; COUNTING
    • G06K—RECOGNITION OF DATA; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS
    • G06K9/00—Methods or arrangements for reading or recognising printed or written characters or for recognising patterns, e.g. fingerprints
    • G06K9/20—Image acquisition
    • G06K9/32—Aligning or centering of the image pick-up or image-field
    • G06K9/3233—Determination of region of interest
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING; COUNTING
    • G06K—RECOGNITION OF DATA; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS
    • G06K9/00—Methods or arrangements for reading or recognising printed or written characters or for recognising patterns, e.g. fingerprints
    • G06K9/36—Image preprocessing, i.e. processing the image information without deciding about the identity of the image
    • G06K9/46—Extraction of features or characteristics of the image
    • G06K9/4652—Extraction of features or characteristics of the image related to colour
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING; COUNTING
    • G06K—RECOGNITION OF DATA; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS
    • G06K9/00—Methods or arrangements for reading or recognising printed or written characters or for recognising patterns, e.g. fingerprints
    • G06K9/36—Image preprocessing, i.e. processing the image information without deciding about the identity of the image
    • G06K9/46—Extraction of features or characteristics of the image
    • G06K9/4604—Detecting partial patterns, e.g. edges or contours, or configurations, e.g. loops, corners, strokes, intersections
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING; COUNTING
    • G06K—RECOGNITION OF DATA; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS
    • G06K9/00—Methods or arrangements for reading or recognising printed or written characters or for recognising patterns, e.g. fingerprints
    • G06K9/20—Image acquisition
    • G06K9/34—Segmentation of touching or overlapping patterns in the image field
    • G06K9/342—Cutting or merging image elements, e.g. region growing, watershed, clustering-based techniques
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING; COUNTING
    • G06K—RECOGNITION OF DATA; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS
    • G06K9/00—Methods or arrangements for reading or recognising printed or written characters or for recognising patterns, e.g. fingerprints
    • G06K9/62—Methods or arrangements for recognition using electronic means
    • G06K9/6201—Matching; Proximity measures
    • G06K9/6202—Comparing pixel values or logical combinations thereof, or feature values having positional relevance, e.g. template matching
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING; COUNTING
    • G06K—RECOGNITION OF DATA; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS
    • G06K9/00—Methods or arrangements for reading or recognising printed or written characters or for recognising patterns, e.g. fingerprints
    • G06K9/36—Image preprocessing, i.e. processing the image information without deciding about the identity of the image
    • G06K9/38—Quantising the analogue image signal, e.g. histogram thresholding for discrimination between background and foreground patterns
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING; COUNTING
    • G06K—RECOGNITION OF DATA; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS
    • G06K9/00—Methods or arrangements for reading or recognising printed or written characters or for recognising patterns, e.g. fingerprints
    • G06K9/00624—Recognising scenes, i.e. recognition of a whole field of perception; recognising scene-specific objects
    • G06K9/00711—Recognising video content, e.g. extracting audiovisual features from movies, extracting representative key-frames, discriminating news vs. sport content
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING; COUNTING
    • G06K—RECOGNITION OF DATA; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS
    • G06K9/00—Methods or arrangements for reading or recognising printed or written characters or for recognising patterns, e.g. fingerprints
    • G06K9/20—Image acquisition
    • G06K9/2018—Identifying/ignoring parts by sensing at different wavelengths
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING; COUNTING
    • G06K—RECOGNITION OF DATA; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS
    • G06K9/00—Methods or arrangements for reading or recognising printed or written characters or for recognising patterns, e.g. fingerprints
    • G06K9/00442—Document analysis and understanding; Document recognition
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING; COUNTING
    • G06T—IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL
    • G06T2207/00—Indexing scheme for image analysis or image enhancement
    • G06T2207/20—Special algorithmic details
    • G06T2207/20112—Image segmentation details
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING; COUNTING
    • G06T—IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL
    • G06T2207/00—Indexing scheme for image analysis or image enhancement
    • G06T2207/10—Image acquisition modality
    • G06T2207/10024—Color image
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING; COUNTING
    • G06K—RECOGNITION OF DATA; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS
    • G06K9/00—Methods or arrangements for reading or recognising printed or written characters or for recognising patterns, e.g. fingerprints
    • G06K9/00221—Acquiring or recognising human faces, facial parts, facial sketches, facial expressions
    • G06K9/00228—Detection; Localisation; Normalisation
    • G06K9/00234—Detection; Localisation; Normalisation using pixel segmentation or colour matching
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING; COUNTING
    • G06T—IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL
    • G06T7/00—Image analysis
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING; COUNTING
    • G06T—IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL
    • G06T2207/00—Indexing scheme for image analysis or image enhancement
    • G06T2207/30—Subject of image; Context of image processing
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING; COUNTING
    • G06K—RECOGNITION OF DATA; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS
    • G06K2209/00—Indexing scheme relating to methods or arrangements for reading or recognising printed or written characters or for recognising patterns, e.g. fingerprints
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING; COUNTING
    • G06F—ELECTRICAL DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
    • G06F17/00—Digital computing or data processing equipment or methods, specially adapted for specific functions
    • G06F17/30—Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
    • G06F17/30244—Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor in image databases
    • G06F17/30247—Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor in image databases based on features automatically derived from the image data
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING; COUNTING
    • G06F—ELECTRICAL DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
    • G06F17/00—Digital computing or data processing equipment or methods, specially adapted for specific functions
    • G06F17/30—Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
    • G06F17/30781—Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor of video data
    • G06F17/30784—Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor of video data using features automatically derived from the video content, e.g. descriptors, fingerprints, signatures, genre
    • G06F17/30799—Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor of video data using features automatically derived from the video content, e.g. descriptors, fingerprints, signatures, genre using low-level visual features of the video content

Similar Documents

Publication Publication Date Title
Wang et al. Character location in scene images from digital camera
EP1271403B1 (en) Method and device for character location in images from digital camera
Wong et al. A new robust algorithm for video text extraction
Wang et al. An effective method for plate number recognition
CN106846339A (en) Image detection method and device
CN107066972B (en) Natural scene Method for text detection based on multichannel extremal region
Rashedi et al. A hierarchical algorithm for vehicle license plate localization
Anthimopoulos et al. A hybrid system for text detection in video frames
Liu et al. A novel multi-oriented chinese text extraction approach from videos
Kumar An efficient text extraction algorithm in complex images
Giri Text information extraction and analysis from images using digital image processing techniques
Qin et al. Video scene text frames categorization for text detection and recognition
Rastegar et al. An intelligent control system using an efficient License Plate Location and Recognition Approach
Srivastav et al. Text detection in scene images using stroke width and nearest-neighbor constraints
Wang et al. Character segmentation of color images from digital camera
Lafuente-Arroyo et al. Traffic sign classification invariant to rotations using support vector machines
Anthimopoulos et al. Multiresolution text detection in video frames
Chowdhury et al. Extracting and segmenting container name from container images
Zambanini et al. Robust automatic segmentation of ancient coins
Sushma et al. Text detection in color images
Islam et al. Automatic Vehicle Bangla License Plate Detection and Recognition
Sharma Extraction of text regions in natural images
Anthimopoulos et al. Detecting text in video frames
Samuel et al. Automatic Text Segmentation and Recognition in Natural Scene Images Using Msocr
Shelke et al. Traffic sign recognition