A New Method for Arabic Text Detection in Natural Scene Images

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Houda Gaddour ◽  
Slim Kanoun ◽  
Nicole Vincent
Keyword(s):  
Color Stability ◽  
Spatial Relations ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Text Detection ◽  
New Method ◽  
Arabic Text ◽  
Natural Scene ◽  
Script Identification ◽  
Homogeneous Regions ◽  
Natural Scene Images

Text in scene images can provide useful and vital information for content-based image analysis. Therefore, text detection and script identification in images are an important task. In this paper, we propose a new method for text detection in natural scene images, particularly for Arabic text, based on a bottom-up approach where four principal steps can be highlighted. The detection of extremely stable and homogeneous regions of interest (ROIs) is based on the Color Stability and Homogeneity Regions (CSHR) proposed technique. These regions are then labeled as textual or non-textual ROI. This identification is based on a structural approach. The textual ROIs are grouped to constitute zones according to spatial relations between them. Finally, the textual or non-textual nature of the constituted zones is refined. This last identification is based on handcrafted features and on features built from a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) after learning. The proposed method was evaluated on the databases used for text detection in natural scene images: the competitions organized in 2017 edition of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR2017), the Urdu-text database and our Natural Scene Image Database for Arabic Text detection (NSIDAT) database. The obtained experimental results seem to be interesting.

scholarly journals Reduced Annotation Based on Deep Active Learning for Arabic Text Detection in Natural Scene Images

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khalil Boukthir ◽  
Abdulrahman M. Qahtani ◽  
Omar Almutiry ◽  
habib dhahri ◽  
Adel Alimi
Keyword(s):  
Active Learning ◽  
Text Detection ◽  
Training Data ◽  
Arabic Text ◽  
Natural Scene ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Training Samples ◽  
Scene Text ◽  
Text Images ◽  
Natural Scene Images

<div>- A novel approach is presented to reduced annotation based on Deep Active Learning for Arabic text detection in Natural Scene Images.</div><div>- A new Arabic text images dataset (7k images) using the Google Street View service named TSVD.</div><div>- A new semi-automatic method for generating natural scene text images from the streets.</div><div>- Training samples is reduced to 1/5 of the original training size on average.</div><div>- Much less training data to achieve better dice index : 0.84</div>

scholarly journals Reduced Annotation Based on Deep Active Learning for Arabic Text Detection in Natural Scene Images

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khalil Boukthir ◽  
Abdulrahman M. Qahtani ◽  
Omar Almutiry ◽  
habib dhahri ◽  
Adel Alimi
Keyword(s):  
Active Learning ◽  
Text Detection ◽  
Training Data ◽  
Arabic Text ◽  
Natural Scene ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Training Samples ◽  
Scene Text ◽  
Text Images ◽  
Natural Scene Images

<div>- A novel approach is presented to reduced annotation based on Deep Active Learning for Arabic text detection in Natural Scene Images.</div><div>- A new Arabic text images dataset (7k images) using the Google Street View service named TSVD.</div><div>- A new semi-automatic method for generating natural scene text images from the streets.</div><div>- Training samples is reduced to 1/5 of the original training size on average.</div><div>- Much less training data to achieve better dice index : 0.84</div>

Text detection and script identification in natural scene images using deep learning

2021 ◽  
Vol 91 ◽  
pp. 107043
Author(s):  
Ashwaq Khalil ◽  
Moath Jarrah ◽  
Mahmoud Al-Ayyoub ◽  
Yaser Jararweh
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
Text Detection ◽  
Natural Scene ◽  
Script Identification ◽  
Natural Scene Images

Mining discriminative patches for script identification in natural scene images

2021 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 551-563
Author(s):  
Liqiong Lu ◽  
Dong Wu ◽  
Ziwei Tang ◽  
Yaohua Yi ◽  
Faliang Huang
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
The Other ◽  
Natural Scene ◽  
Fixed Size ◽  
Script Identification ◽  
Aspect Ratios ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Public Datasets ◽  
Natural Scene Images

This paper focuses on script identification in natural scene images. Traditional CNNs (Convolution Neural Networks) cannot solve this problem perfectly for two reasons: one is the arbitrary aspect ratios of scene images which bring much difficulty to traditional CNNs with a fixed size image as the input. And the other is that some scripts with minor differences are easily confused because they share a subset of characters with the same shapes. We propose a novel approach combing Score CNN, Attention CNN and patches. Attention CNN is utilized to determine whether a patch is a discriminative patch and calculate the contribution weight of the discriminative patch to script identification of the whole image. Score CNN uses a discriminative patch as input and predict the score of each script type. Firstly patches with the same size are extracted from the scene images. Secondly these patches are used as inputs to Score CNN and Attention CNN to train two patch-level classifiers. Finally, the results of multiple discriminative patches extracted from the same image via the above two classifiers are fused to obtain the script type of this image. Using patches with the same size as inputs to CNN can avoid the problems caused by arbitrary aspect ratios of scene images. The trained classifiers can mine discriminative patches to accurately identify some confusing scripts. The experimental results show the good performance of our approach on four public datasets.

Devanagari Text Detection From Natural Scene Images

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 44-59
Author(s):  
Sankirti Sandeep Shiravale ◽  
R. Jayadevan ◽  
Sanjeev S. Sannakki
Keyword(s):  
Edge Detection ◽  
Image Understanding ◽  
Text Detection ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Combined Approach ◽  
Natural Scene ◽  
Light Conditions ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Natural Scene Images ◽  
Better Than

Text present in a camera captured scene images is semantically rich and can be used for image understanding. Automatic detection, extraction, and recognition of text are crucial in image understanding applications. Text detection from natural scene images is a tedious task due to complex background, uneven light conditions, multi-coloured and multi-sized font. Two techniques, namely ‘edge detection' and ‘colour-based clustering', are combined in this paper to detect text in scene images. Region properties are used for elimination of falsely generated annotations. A dataset of 1250 images is created and used for experimentation. Experimental results show that the combined approach performs better than the individual approaches.

A new method for detection and prediction of occluded text in natural scene images

2021 ◽  
pp. 116512
Author(s):  
Ayush Mittal ◽  
Palaiahnakote Shivakumara ◽  
Umapada Pal ◽  
Tong Lu ◽  
Michael Blumenstein
Keyword(s):  
New Method ◽  
Natural Scene ◽  
Natural Scene Images
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