资源描述:
《Text Information Extraction in Images and Video A Survey》由会员上传分享,免费在线阅读,更多相关内容在学术论文-天天文库。
1、TextInformationExtractioninImagesandVideo:ASurveyKeechulJung,KwangInKim,AnilK.JainAbstractTextdatapresentinimagesandvideocontainusefulinformationforautomaticannotation,indexing,andstructuringofimages.Extractionofthisinformationinvolvesdetection,localization,
2、tracking,extraction,enhancement,andrecognitionofthetextfromagivenimage.However,variationsoftextduetodifferencesinsize,style,orientation,andalignment,aswellaslowimagecontrastandcomplexbackgroundmaketheproblemofautomatictextextractionextremelychallenging.While
3、comprehensivesurveysofrelatedproblemssuchasfacedetection,documentanalysis,andimage&videoindexingcanbefound,theproblemoftextinformationextractionisnotwellsurveyed.Alargenumberoftechniqueshavebeenproposedtoaddressthisproblem,andthepurposeofthispaperistoclassif
4、yandreviewthesealgorithms,discussbenchmarkdataandperformanceevaluation,andtopointoutpromisingdirectionsforfutureresearch.Keywords:Textinformationextraction,textdetection,textlocalization,texttracking,textenhancement,OCR1IntroductionContent-basedimageindexing
5、referstotheprocessofattachinglabelstoimagesbasedontheircontent.Imagecontentcanbedividedintotwomaincategories:perceptualcontentandsemanticcontent[1].Perceptualcontentincludesattributessuchascolor,intensity,shape,texture,andtheirtemporalchanges,whereassemantic
6、contentmeansobjects,events,andtheirrelations.Anumberofstudiesontheuseofrelativelylow-levelperceptualcontent[2-6]forimageandvideoindexinghavealreadybeenreported.Studiesonsemanticimagecontentintheformoftext,face,vehicle,andhumanactionhavealsoattractedsomerecen
7、tinterest[7-16].Amongthem,textwithinanimageisofparticularinterestas(i)itisveryusefulfordescribingthecontentsofanimage;(ii)itcanbeeasilyextractedcomparedtoothersemanticcontents,and(iii)itenablesapplicationssuchaskeyword-basedimagesearch,automaticvideologging,
8、andtext-basedimageindexing.1.1TextinimagesAvarietyofapproachestotextinformationextraction(TIE)fromimagesandvideohavebeenproposedforspecificapplicationsincludingpagesegmentation[17,18],addressblo