Recognition-based handwritten Chinese character segmentation using a probabilistic Viterbi algorithm
Pattern Recognition Letters
Applications of Video-Content Analysis and Retrieval
IEEE MultiMedia
Video OCR: indexing digital new libraries by recognition of superimposed captions
Multimedia Systems - Special section on video libraries
Robust Extraction of Text in Video
ICPR '00 Proceedings of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition - Volume 1
Character Segmentation of Color Images from Digital Camera
ICDAR '01 Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
Extraction and recognition of artificial text in multimedia documents
Pattern Analysis & Applications
Human Carrying Status in Visual Surveillance
CVPR '06 Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition - Volume 2
Knowledge and Information Systems
General Tensor Discriminant Analysis and Gabor Features for Gait Recognition
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Accurate text localization in images based on SVM output scores
Image and Vision Computing
Localizing and segmenting text in images and videos
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
Display text segmentation after learning best-fitted OCR binarization parameters
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Localizing slab identification numbers in factory scene images
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
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We propose a new method for achieving robust text segmentation in images by using a stroke filter. It is known that to segment text accurately and robustly from a complex background is a very difficult task. Most of the existing methods are sensitive to text color, size, font, and background clutter, because they use simple segmentation methods or require prior knowledge about text shape. In this paper, we attempt to consider the intrinsic characteristics of the text by using the stroke filter and design a new and robust algorithm for text segmentation. First, we describe the stroke filter briefly based on local region analysis. Second, the determination of text color polarity and local region growing procedures are performed successively based on the response of the stroke filter. Finally, the feedback procedure by the recognition score from an optical character recognition (OCR) module is used to improve the performance of text segmentation. By means of experiments on a large database, we demonstrate that the performance of our method is quite impressive from the viewpoints of the accuracy and robustness.