Title :
Low-complexity text extraction in Korean signboards for mobile applications
Author :
Dinh, Toan Nguyen ; Park, Jonghyun ; Lee, Gueesang
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Comput. Eng., Chonnam Nat. Univ., Gwangju
Abstract :
Text extraction is a very important step in text understanding. Natural scene images bring new challenges to correctly extract interested text regions. In the paper, an efficient and low-complexity text extraction method is used to extract Korean text from signboards of shops. By combining the edge-based approach and some knowledge of the Korean text specified in our application, our method successfully extracts text and can be used in the mobile devices which have low capability.
Keywords :
mobile computing; natural language processing; text analysis; Korean signboards; mobile applications; text extraction; text understanding; Application software; Data mining; Gray-scale; Histograms; Image processing; Image segmentation; Layout; Mobile computing; Mobile handsets; Optical reflection; edge profile; histogram; mobile application; natural scene image; text extraction;
Conference_Titel :
Computer and Information Technology, 2008. CIT 2008. 8th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Sydney, NSW
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2357-6
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2358-3
DOI :
10.1109/CIT.2008.4594697
