Robust Text Detection in Natural Scene Images

	Robust Text Detection in Natural Scene Images
	Yin, Xu-Cheng; Yin, Xuwang; Huang, Kaizhu; Hao, Hong-Wei
发表期刊	IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PATTERN ANALYSIS AND MACHINE INTELLIGENCE
	2014-05-01
卷号	36 期号:5;5 页码:970-983
文章类型	Article
摘要	Text detection in natural scene images is an important prerequisite for many content-based image analysis tasks. In this paper, we propose an accurate and robust method for detecting texts in natural scene images. A fast and effective pruning algorithm is designed to extract Maximally Stable Extremal Regions (MSERs) as character candidates using the strategy of minimizing regularized variations. Character candidates are grouped into text candidates by the single-link clustering algorithm, where distance weights and clustering threshold are learned automatically by a novel self-training distance metric learning algorithm. The posterior probabilities of text candidates corresponding to non-text are estimated with a character classifier; text candidates with high non-text probabilities are eliminated and texts are identified with a text classifier. The proposed system is evaluated on the ICDAR 2011 Robust Reading Competition database; the f-measure is over 76%, much better than the state-of-the-art performance of 71%. Experiments on multilingual, street view, multi-orientation and even born-digital databases also demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method. Finally, an online demo of our proposed scene text detection system has been set up at http://prir.ustb.edu.cn/TexStar/scene-text-detection/.
关键词	Scene Text Detection Maximally Stable Extremal Regions Single-link Clustering Distance Metric Learning
WOS标题词	Science & Technology ; Technology
关键词[WOS]	VIDEO ; SEGMENTATION ; LOCALIZATION ; EXTRACTION
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Computer Science ; Engineering
WOS类目	Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence ; Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
WOS记录号	WOS:000336054200011
引用统计	被引频次：429[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.ia.ac.cn/handle/173211/40874
专题	复杂系统认知与决策实验室_听觉模型与认知计算
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Yin, Xu-Cheng,Yin, Xuwang,Huang, Kaizhu,et al. Robust Text Detection in Natural Scene Images[J]. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PATTERN ANALYSIS AND MACHINE INTELLIGENCE,2014,36(5;5):970-983.
APA	Yin, Xu-Cheng,Yin, Xuwang,Huang, Kaizhu,&Hao, Hong-Wei.(2014).Robust Text Detection in Natural Scene Images.IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PATTERN ANALYSIS AND MACHINE INTELLIGENCE,36(5;5),970-983.
MLA	Yin, Xu-Cheng,et al."Robust Text Detection in Natural Scene Images".IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PATTERN ANALYSIS AND MACHINE INTELLIGENCE 36.5;5(2014):970-983.