A Laplacian Approach to Multi-Oriented Text Detection in Video

Authors:
Palaiahnakote Shivakumara;Trung Quy Phan;Chew Lim Tan
Affiliations:
National University of Singapore, Singapore;National University of Singapore, Singapore;National University of Singapore, Singapore
Venue:
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Year:
2011

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Abstract

Abstract—In this paper, we propose a method based on the Laplacian in the frequency domain for video text detection. Unlike many other approaches which assume that text is horizontally-oriented, our method is able to handle text of arbitrary orientation. The input image is first filtered with Fourier-Laplacian. K--means clustering is then used to identify candidate text regions based on the maximum difference. The skeleton of each connected component helps to separate the different text strings from each other. Finally, text string straightness and edge density are used for false positive elimination. Experimental results show that the proposed method is able to handle graphics text and scene text of both horizontal and nonhorizontal orientation.