Con-Text: Text Detection Using Background Connectivity for Fine-Grained Object Classification

Authors
Publication date 2013
Book title MM '13
Book subtitle proceedings of the 2013 ACM Multimedia Conference : October 21-25, 2013, Barcelona, Spain
ISBN
  • 9781450324045
Event 2013 ACM Multimedia Conference
Volume | Issue number 2
Pages (from-to) 757-760
Publisher New York: ACM
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Informatics Institute (IVI)
Abstract This paper focuses on fine-grained classification by detecting photographed text in images. We introduce a text detection method that does not try to detect all possible foreground text regions but instead aims to reconstruct the scene background to eliminate non-text regions. Object cues such as color, contrast, and objectiveness are used in corporation with a random forest classifier to detect background pixels in the scene. Results on two publicly available datasets ICDAR03 and a fine-grained Building subcategories of ImageNet shows the effectiveness of the proposed method.
Document type Conference contribution
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1145/2502081.2502197
Other links http://www.science.uva.nl/research/publications/2013/KaraogluICM2013
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