Scene text detection from video as well as natural scene images is challenging due to the variations in background, contrast, text type, font type, font size, and so on. Besides, arbitrary orientations of texts with multi-scripts add more complexity to the problem. The proposed approach introduces a new idea of convolving Laplacian with wavelet sub-bands at different levels in the frequency domain for enhancing low resolution text pixels. Then, the results obtained from different sub-bands (spectral) are fused for detecting candidate text pixels. We explore maxima stable extreme regions along with stroke width transform for detecting candidate text regions. Text alignment is done based on the distance between the nearest neighbor clusters of candidate text regions. In addition, the approach presents a new symmetry driven nearest neighbor for restoring full text lines. We conduct experiments on our collected video data as well as several benchmark data sets, such as ICDAR 2011, ICDAR 2013, and MSRA-TD500 to evaluate the proposed method. The proposed approach is compared with the state-of-the-art methods to show its superiority to the existing methods.

Keyword spotting in video document images is challenging due to low resolution and complex background of video images. We propose the combination of Texture-Spatial-Features (TSF) for keyword spotting in video images without recognizing them. First, a segmentation method extracts words from text lines in each video image. Then we propose the set of texture features for identifying text candidates in the word image with the help of k-means clustering. The proposed method finds proximity between text candidates to study the spatial arrangement of pixels that result in feature vectors for spotting words in the input frame. The proposed method is evaluated on word images of different fonts, contrasts, backgrounds and font sizes, which are chosen from standard databases such as ICDAR 2013 video and our video data. Experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms the existing method in terms of recall, precision and f-measure. that a film director's name, a sports person's name, and 391 2015 3rd IAPR Asian Conference on Pattern Recognition 978-1-4799-6100-9/15/$31.00 ©2015 IEEE

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