Bayesian Super-Resolution of Text in Video with a Text-Specific Bimodal Prior

Authors:
Katherine Donaldson;Gregory K. Myers
Affiliations:
SRI International;SRI International
Venue:
CVPR '05 Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'05) - Volume 1 - Volume 01
Year:
2005

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Abstract

To increase the range of sizes of video scene text recognizable by optical character recognition (OCR), we developed a Bayesian super-resolution algorithm that uses a text-specific bimodal prior. We evaluated the effectiveness of the bimodal prior, compared with and in conjunction with a piecewise smoothness prior, visually and by measuring the accuracy of the OCR results on the variously super-resolved images. The bimodal prior improved the readability of 4- to 7-pixel-high scene text significantly better than bicubic interpolation, and increased the accuracy of OCR results better than the piecewise smoothness prior.