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An ICA based Approach for Complex Color Scene Text BinarizationAuthors: Siddharth Kherada,Anoop M Namboodiri Conference: ACPR 2013 Date: 2013-11-05 Report no: IIIT/TR/2013/120 AbstractBinarization of text in natural scene images is a challenging task due to the variations in color, size, and font of the text and the results are often affected by complex back- grounds, different lighting conditions, shadows and reflections. A robust solution to this problem can significantly enhance the accuracy of scene text recognition algorithms leading to a variety of applications such as scene understanding, automatic localization and navigation, and image retrieval. In this paper, we propose a method to extract and binarize text from images that contains complex background. We use an Independent Component Analysis (ICA) based technique to map out the text region, which is inherently uniform in nature, while removing shadows, specularity and reflections, which are included in the background. The technique identifies the text regions from the components extracted by ICA using a global thresholding method to isolate the foreground text. We show the results of our algorithm on some of the most complex word images from the ICDAR 2003 Robust Word Recognition Dataset and compare with previously reported methods. Full paper: pdf Centre for Visual Information Technology |
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