Conspicuous Character Patterns

  • Authors:
  • Seiichi Uchida;Ryoji Hattori;Masakazu Iwamura;Shinichiro Omachi;Koichi Kise

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ICDAR '09 Proceedings of the 2009 10th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Detection of characters in scenery images is often a very difficult problem. Although many researchers have tackled this difficult problem and achieved a good performance, it is still difficult to suppress many false alarms and although missings. This paper investigates a conspicuous character pattern, which is a special pattern designed for easier detection. In order to have an example of the conspicuous character pattern, we select a character fontwith a larger distance from a non-character pattern distribution and, simultaneously, with a smaller distance from a character pattern distribution. Experimental results showed that the character font selected by this method is actually more conspicuous (i.e., detected more easily) than other fonts.