International Journal of Image, Graphics and Signal Processing (IJIGSP)
IJIGSP Vol. 7, No. 2, 8 Jan. 2015
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Text Region Extraction: A Morphological Based Image Analysis Using Genetic Algorithm
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Image processing, Text detection, Genetic algorithm, Morphological Dilatation, Erosion, Edge detection
Abstract
Image analysis belongs to the area of computer vision and pattern recognition. These areas are also a part of digital image processing, where researchers have a great attention in the area of content retrieval information from various types of images having complex background, low contrast background or multi-spectral background etc. These contents may be found in any form like texture data, shape, and objects. Text Region Extraction as a content from an mage is a class of problems in Digital Image Processing Applications that aims to provides necessary information which are widely used in many fields medical imaging, pattern recognition, Robotics, Artificial intelligent Transport systems etc. To extract the text data information has becomes a challenging task. Since, Text extraction are very useful for identifying and analysis the whole information about image, Therefore, In this paper, we propose a unified framework by combining morphological operations and Genetic Algorithms for extracting and analyzing the text data region which may be embedded in an image by means of variety of texts: font, size, skew angle, distortion by slant and tilt, shape of the object which texts are on, etc. We have established our proposed methods on gray level image sets and make qualitative and quantitative comparisons with other existing methods and concluded that proposed method is better than others.
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Dhirendra Pal Singh, Ashish Khare,"Text Region Extraction: A Morphological Based Image Analysis Using Genetic Algorithm", IJIGSP, vol.7, no.2, pp.39-47, 2015. DOI: 10.5815/ijigsp.2015.02.06
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