Open AccessTouch TT: Scene Text Extractor Using Touchscreen Interface
Author(s) -
Jung Jehyun,
Lee SeongHun,
Cho Min Su,
Kim Jin Hyung
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
etri journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.295
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 2233-7326
pISSN - 1225-6463
DOI - 10.4218/etrij.11.1510.0029
Subject(s) - touchscreen , extractor , computer science , segmentation , artificial intelligence , interface (matter) , simple (philosophy) , computer vision , cover (algebra) , computer graphics (images) , pattern recognition (psychology) , human–computer interaction , engineering , mechanical engineering , philosophy , bubble , epistemology , maximum bubble pressure method , process engineering , parallel computing
In this paper, we present the Touch Text exTractor (Touch TT), an interactive text segmentation tool for the extraction of scene text from camera‐based images. Touch TT provides a natural interface for a user to simply indicate the location of text regions with a simple touchline. Touch TT then automatically estimates the text color and roughly locates the text regions. By inferring text characteristics from the estimated text color and text region, Touch TT can extract text components. Touch TT can also handle partially drawn lines which cover only a small section of text area. The proposed system achieves reasonable accuracy for text extraction from moderately difficult examples from the ICDAR 2003 database and our own database.