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Özgün Başlık
A Novel Character Segmentation Method for Text Images Captured by Cameras

Yazarlar
Hsin-Te Lue, Ming-Gang Wen, Hsu-Yung Cheng, Kuo-Chin Fan, Chih-Wei Lin, and Chih-Chang Yu

Dergi Adı
ETRI Journal

Cilt
October 2010, Cilt 32, Sayı 5, ss. 729-739

Anahtar Kelimeler
Webcam-based OCR ; character segmentation ; typographical structure ; periphery features ; dynamic programming

Özet
Due to the rapid development of mobile devices equipped with cameras, instant translation of any text seen in any context is possible. Mobile devices can serve as a translation tool by recognizing the texts presented in the captured scenes. Images captured by cameras will embed more external or unwanted effects which need not to be considered in traditional optical character recognition (OCR). In this paper, we segment a text image captured by mobile devices into individual single characters to facilitate OCR kernel processing. Before proceeding with character segmentation, text detection and text line construction need to be performed in advance. A novel character segmentation method which integrates touched character filters is employed on text images captured by cameras. In addition, periphery features are extracted from the segmented images of touched characters and fed as inputs to support vector machines to calculate the confident values. In our experiment, the accuracy rate of the proposed character segmentation system is 94.90%, which demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed method.