Title
Text-Edge-Box: An Object Proposal Approach For Scene Texts Localization
Abstract
Text proposal has been gaining interest in recent years due to the great success of object proposal in categories-independent object localization. In this paper, we present a novel text-specific proposal technique that provides superior bounding boxes for accurate text localization in scenes. The proposed technique, which we call Text Edge Box (TEB), uses a binary edge map, a gradient map and an orientation map of an image as inputs. Connected components are first found within the binary edge map, which are scored by two proposed low-cue text features that are extracted in the gradient map and the orientation map, respectively. These scores present text probability of connected components and are aggregated in a text edge image. Scene texts proposals are finally generated by grouping the connected components and estimating their likelihood of being words. The proposed TEB has been evaluated on the two public scene text datasets: the Robust Reading Competition 2013 dataset (ICDAR 2013) dataset and the Street View Text (SVT) dataset. Experiments show that the proposed TEB outperforms the state-of-the-art techniques greatly.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/WACV.2017.149
2017 IEEE WINTER CONFERENCE ON APPLICATIONS OF COMPUTER VISION (WACV 2017)
Field
DocType
ISSN
Computer vision,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Feature extraction,Artificial intelligence,Connected component,Distortion,Text recognition,Bounding overwatch,Binary number
Conference
2472-6737
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
29
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dinh Nguyen110.35
Shijian Lu2134693.57
Nizar Ouarti3416.25
Mounir Mokhtari440154.38