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Video Caption Image Enhancement for an Efficient Character Recognition
Barcelona, Spain September 03-September 08
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ICPR.2000.90614715th International Conference on Patt ...
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Sangshin Kwak, Soongsil University
Kyusik Chung, Soongsil University
Yeongwoo Choi, Sookmyung Women's University
For improved recognition of videotexts, we have focused on image enhancement techniques. Since the videotexts are in low-resolution and mixed with complex backgrounds, image enhancement is a key to successful recognition of the videotexts. Especially in Hangul characters, several consonants cannot be distinguishable without sophisticated image enhancement techniques. In this paper, after the multiple videotext frames containing the same captions are detected and the caption area in each frame is extracted, five different image enhancement techniques are serially applied to the image: multiframe integration, resolution enhancement, contrast enhancement, advanced binarization, and morphological smoothing operations. We have tested the proposed techniques with the video caption images containing both Hangul and English characters from various video sources such as cinema, news, sports, etc. The character recognition results are greatly improved by using enhanced images in the experiment.
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Sangshin Kwak, Kyusik Chung, Yeongwoo Choi, "Video Caption Image Enhancement for an Efficient Character Recognition," icpr, vol. 2, pp.2606, 15th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'00) - Volume 2, 2000
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