In this paper, we propose an approach for detecting signs from natural scenes. The approach efficiently embeds multiresolution, adaptive search, and affine rectification algorithms in a hierarchical framework, with different emphases at each layer. We combine in multi-resolution and multi-scale edge detection techniques to effectively detect text in different sizes. By using the cites from text inside the image, we introduce affine rectification transformation to recover deformation of the text region caused by air inappropriate camera view angle. This procedure can significantly improve text detection rate and OCR (Optical Character Recognition) accuracy. Experimental results have demonstrated feasibility of the proposed algorithms. We have applied the proposed approach to a Chinese sign translation system, which can automatically detect Chinese text input from a camera, recognize the text, and translate the recognized text into English or voice stream.


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    Title :

    Automatic detection of signs with affine transformation


    Contributors:
    Xilin Chen, (author) / Jie Yang, (author) / Jing Zhang, (author) / Waibel, A. (author)


    Publication date :

    2002-01-01


    Size :

    411004 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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