Presentation 2016-02-22
A Novel Characteristic Feature Based on Shape Briefness for Text Region Detectioin from Natural Scenes
Masataka Sato, Terumasa Aoki, zhan ge,
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Abstract(in English) In recent years, character recognition technologies in natural scenes are widely studied. Character detection from natural scenes is a very challenging task due to the obscurity about characterness. In this paper, we present a novel characteristic feature based on shape briefness of texts. Our method enables to remove a lot of Non-character regions successfully and improve the accuracy of character detection.
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Keyword(in English) Text Information Extraction / Character Region Detection / Characteristic Feature / OCR
Paper # ITS2015-73,IE2015-115
Date of Issue 2016-02-15 (ITS, IE)

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Committee ITS / IE / ITE-AIT / ITE-HI / ITE-ME / ITE-MMS / ITE-CE
Conference Date 2016/2/22(2days)
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Place (in English) Hokkaido Univ.
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Chair Tomotaka Nagaosa(Kanto Gakuin Univ.) / Seishi Takamura(NTT) / Tokiichiro Takahashi(TDU) / Masayuki Sato(Univ. of Kitakyushu) / Kazuhito Murakami(Aichi Prefectural Univ.) / Eiichi Miyashita(NHK) / Koji Minami(Mitsubishi Electric Corp.)
Vice Chair Masahiro Fujii(Utsunomiya Univ.) / Tomotaka Wada(Kansai Univ.) / Takayuki Hamamoto(Tokyo Univ. of Science) / Atsuro Ichigaya(NHK) / / / Miki Haseyama(Hokkaido Univ.)
Secretary Masahiro Fujii(AIST) / Tomotaka Wada(Utsunomiya Univ.) / Takayuki Hamamoto(NTT) / Atsuro Ichigaya(Chiba Inst. of Tech.) / (Tokyo Polytechnic Univ.) / (NICT) / Miki Haseyama(NTT) / (NHK) / (NHK)
Assistant Kohei Ohno(Meiji Univ.) / Tetsuya Manabe(Saitama Univ.) / Keita Takahashi(Nagoya Univ.) / Kei Kawamura(KDDI R&D Labs.)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Intelligent Transport Systems Technology / Technical Committee on Image Engineering / Technical Group on Artistic Image Technology / Technical Group on Human Information / Technical Group on Media Engineering / Technical Group on Multi-media Storage / Technical Group on Consumer Electronics
Language JPN
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Title (in English) A Novel Characteristic Feature Based on Shape Briefness for Text Region Detectioin from Natural Scenes
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) Text Information Extraction
Keyword(2) Character Region Detection
Keyword(3) Characteristic Feature
Keyword(4) OCR
1st Author's Name Masataka Sato
1st Author's Affiliation Tohoku University(Tohoku Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Terumasa Aoki
2nd Author's Affiliation Tohoku University(Tohoku Univ.)
3rd Author's Name zhan ge
3rd Author's Affiliation Tohoku University(Tohoku Univ.)
Date 2016-02-22
Paper # ITS2015-73,IE2015-115
Volume (vol) vol.115
Number (no) ITS-458,IE-459
Page pp.pp.119-124(ITS), pp.119-124(IE),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2016-02-15 (ITS, IE)