National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.60872141);Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No.K50510010007);Huawei Innovation Research Project of Higher Education Institutes (No.IRP-2012-03-06)
JIANG Wei, LU Zhao-yang, LI Jing, et al. Visual Saliency and Text Confidence Map Based Background Suppression for Scene Text[J]. Acta Electronica Sinica, 2015, 43(1): 62-68.
DOI:
JIANG Wei, LU Zhao-yang, LI Jing, et al. Visual Saliency and Text Confidence Map Based Background Suppression for Scene Text[J]. Acta Electronica Sinica, 2015, 43(1): 62-68. DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.0372-2112.2015.01.010.
Visual Saliency and Text Confidence Map Based Background Suppression for Scene Text
The complex background is an important inference factor of scene text automatic localization algorithm.To eliminate the impact of background
this scheme firstly obtains the saliency region in saliency map according to the spectral residual theory.Then it computes text confidence map in saliency region
which is weighted sum of the fraction map of corresponding pairs based on stroke feature and the posterior probability map based on Fourier spectrum statistical feature.Finally
it combines saliency map
text confidence map and HSI color feature with the graph model to suppress the background and highlight the foreground text.The experimental results on both the ICDAR2011 scene text localization competition test dataset and laboratory Chinese dataset show that the scheme can effectively suppress the complex background and improve the scene text localization algorithm.