Textual information within digital media can be used in many areas such as, indexing and structuring of media databases, in the aid of visually impaired, translation of foreign signs and many more. This said, mainly text can be separated into two categories in digital media as, overlay-text and scene-text. In this thesis localization and recognition of video text regardless of its category in digital media is investigated. As a necessary first step, framework of a complete system is discussed. Next, a comparative analysis of feature vector and classification method pairs is presented. Furthermore, multi-part nature of text is exploited by proposing a novel Markov Random Field approach for the classification of text/non-text regions. Additionally, better localization of text is achieved by introducing bounding-box extraction method. And for the recognition of text regions, a handprint based Optical Character Recognition system is thoroughly investigated. During the investigation of text recognition, multi-hypothesis approach for the segmentation of background is proposed by incorporating k-Means clustering. Furthermore, a novel dictionary-based ranking mechanism is proposed for recognition spelling correction. And overall system is simulated on a challenging data set. Also, a through survey on scene-text localization and recognition is presented. Furthermore, challenges are identified and discussed by providing related work on them. Scene-text localization simulations on a public competition data set are also provided. Lastly, in order to improve recognition performance of scene-text on signs that are affected from perspective projection distortion, a rectification method is proposed and simulated.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/2/12609028/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 November 2007 |
| Creators | Saracoglu, Ahmet |
| Contributors | Alatan, Aydin A. |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | M.S. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | To liberate the content for METU campus |
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