A new gradient based character segmentation method for video text recognition

P Shivakumara, S Bhowmick, B Su… - … on document analysis …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The current OCR cannot segment words and characters from video images due to complex
background as well as low resolution of video images. To have better accuracy, this paper …

Exploiting visual-audio-textual characteristics for automatic tv commercial block detection and segmentation

N Liu, Y Zhao, Z Zhu, H Lu - IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automatic TV commercial block detection (CBD) and commercial block segmentation (CBS)
are two key components of a smart commercial digesting system. In this paper, we focus our …

A novel mutual nearest neighbor based symmetry for text frame classification in video

P Shivakumara, A Dutta, TQ Phan, CL Tan, U Pal - Pattern Recognition, 2011 - Elsevier
In the field of multimedia retrieval in video, text frame classification is essential for text
detection, event detection, event boundary detection, etc. We propose a new text frame …

Image segmentation technology of the ostu method for image materials based on binary PSO algorithm

S Liu - Advances in computer science, intelligent system and …, 2011 - Springer
The threshold segmentation technology is an important significance in image analysis and
image recognition. The Ostu Method is widely used for calculating effective, simple and …

Effective and efficient video text extraction using key text points

Z Li, G Liu, X Qian, D Guo, H Jiang - IET image processing, 2011 - IET
Text information contains important clues for video analysis, indexing and retrieval. Effective
and efficient text extraction has been a challenging and significant topic. Focusing on this …

Localizing blurry and low-resolution text in natural images

P Sanketi, H Shen, JM Coughlan - 2011 IEEE Workshop on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
There is a growing body of work addressing the problem of localizing printed text regions
occurring in natural scenes, all of it focused on images in which the text to be localized is …

Towards robust and efficient text sign reading from a mobile phone

AB Cambra, AC Murillo - 2011 IEEE International Conference …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Embedded applications on mobile phones are reaching impressive goals thanks to the
current powerful smartphones. This work is focused on text recognition applications from …

A novel approach to detecting scene text in video

X Huang - 2011 4th International Congress on Image and …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Scene text in video contains semantic information and thus can contribute significantly to
video retrieval and understanding. However, most methods detect scene text in image or …

[PDF][PDF] A novel method for super imposed text extraction in a sports video

V Vijayakumar, R Nedunchezhian - International Journal of Computer …, 2011 - Citeseer
Video is one of the sources for presenting the valuable information. It contains sequence of
video images, audio and text information. Text data present in video contain useful …

Instantaneously responsive subtitle localization and classification for TV applications

B Zafarifar, J Cao, PH De With - IEEE Transactions on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an algorithm for localization and classification of subtitles in TV videos.
We extend an existing static-region detector with object-based adaptive temporal filtering …