Autonomous mobile robot that can read
EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing
International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition
A Fast and Effective Text Tracking in Compressed Video
ISM '08 Proceedings of the 2008 Tenth IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia
Localizing and segmenting text in images and videos
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
A comprehensive method for multilingual video text detection, localization, and extraction
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
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Visually impaired people suffer daily from their disability to read textual information. One of the most anticipated blind-assistive devices is a system equipped with a wearable camera capable of finding the textual information in natural scenes and translating it into sound through a speech synthesizer. To avoid duplicate readings, the device should be able to recognize text areas with the same content, and group them to obtain a single result. Scene text detection and tracking methods attract a lot of interest for these purposes. However, this field is still challenging and methods of scene text detection and tracking are yet to be perfected. This paper proposes a scene text tracking system capable of finding text regions and tracking them in video frames captured by a wearable camera. By combining a text detection method with a feature point tracker, we obtain a robust text tracker which produces much less false positive text images at 2.9 times faster speed compared with the conventional method.