TY - JOUR
T1 - Character string extraction from newspaper headlines with a background design by recognizing a combination of connected components
AU - Takebe, Hiroaki
AU - Katsuyama, Yutaka
AU - Naoi, Satoshi
PY - 1999
Y1 - 1999
N2 - In this paper we propose a new method of extracting a character string from images with a background design. In Japanese newspaper headlines, it is common for character components to be placed independent of background components. In view of this, we represent a character string candidate as a consistent combination of connected components, and we calculate its character string resemblance value. In this case, a character string resemblance value of a combination of connected components depends upon its character recognition result and the area of the rectangular area occupied by it. We then extract the combination of connected components that has the maximum character string resemblance value. We applied this method to 142 headline images. The results show that the method accurately extracted a character string from various kinds of images with a background design and the method has a favorable processing speed.
AB - In this paper we propose a new method of extracting a character string from images with a background design. In Japanese newspaper headlines, it is common for character components to be placed independent of background components. In view of this, we represent a character string candidate as a consistent combination of connected components, and we calculate its character string resemblance value. In this case, a character string resemblance value of a combination of connected components depends upon its character recognition result and the area of the rectangular area occupied by it. We then extract the combination of connected components that has the maximum character string resemblance value. We applied this method to 142 headline images. The results show that the method accurately extracted a character string from various kinds of images with a background design and the method has a favorable processing speed.
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U2 - 10.1117/12.335818
DO - 10.1117/12.335818
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:0032689547
VL - 3651
SP - 22
EP - 29
JO - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
JF - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
SN - 0277-786X
T2 - Proceedings of the 1999 6th Annual Conference on Document Recognition and Retrieval VI
Y2 - 27 January 1999 through 28 January 1999
ER -