M. León, S. Mallo, and A. Gasull (Spain)
Text detection, text localisation, Max-tree representation.
Nowadays superimposed text in both images and video se quences provides useful information about their contents. The aim of this paper is to introduce a method, which allows us to extract this kind of information, focused on working as independently as possible from the content, quality or font. Some pre-processing tools can be applied in order to reduce the number of false positives as well as the computational cost. The input image is represented by means of a Max-tree. This structure allows us to perform text localisation as a tree pruning. The pruning is per formed applying connected operators based on geometric features of the letters. As a result, a set of potential text regions are obtained. The output of this first stage shows promising results. A second stage will be necessary to ex tract text as a whole, a set of unconnected regions with a unique meaning, allowing us to discard those regions not accomplishind text features.
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