Title :
Scene text detection suitable for parallelizing on multi-core
Author :
Park, Jin Man ; Chung, Heejin ; Seong, Yeong Kyeong
Author_Institution :
SAIT, Software Lab., Samsung Electron., Suwon, South Korea
Abstract :
Text recognition in natural color images is not successful with the nai¿ve application of general OCR (optical character recognition) because the numerous visual environments and luminance in the real world scene. This problem can be solved by adopting various brightness/contrast adjustments and texture analysis to create a binary image very similar to printed text. But such a solution can have a shortcoming; increased execution time. We propose an English text detection method that parallelizes processing jobs to utilize a multi-core processor effectively in order to improve text recognition accuracy and minimize execution time overhead.
Keywords :
image colour analysis; image texture; object recognition; parallel processing; text analysis; English text detection method; brightness adjustments; contrast adjustments; multicore processor; natural color images; optical character recognition; scene text detection; text recognition; texture analysis; Layout; Multi-core; Parallel processing; Text detection; Text recognition;
Conference_Titel :
Image Processing (ICIP), 2009 16th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cairo
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5653-6
Electronic_ISBN :
1522-4880
DOI :
10.1109/ICIP.2009.5414146