Yiwei Liu¹, Yingnan Zhao^1,*, Yi Chen¹, Zheng Hu¹, Min Xia²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.79, No.1, pp. 909-926, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.047901

Abstract Scene text detection is an important task in computer vision. In this paper, we present YOLOv5 Scene Text (YOLOv5ST), an optimized architecture based on YOLOv5 v6.0 tailored for fast scene text detection. Our primary goal is to enhance inference speed without sacrificing significant detection accuracy, thereby enabling robust performance on resource-constrained devices like drones, closed-circuit television cameras, and other embedded systems. To achieve this, we propose key modifications to the network architecture to lighten the original backbone and improve feature aggregation, including replacing standard convolution with depth-wise convolution, adopting the C2 sequence module in place of C3, employing Spatial Pyramid… More >

Di Zhou¹, Jianxun Zhang^1,*, Chao Li², Yifan Guo¹, Bowen Li¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.78, No.2, pp. 1821-1842, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.047236

Abstract Text perception is crucial for understanding the semantics of outdoor scenes, making it a key requirement for building intelligent systems for driver assistance or autonomous driving. Text information in car-mounted videos can assist drivers in making decisions. However, Car-mounted video text images pose challenges such as complex backgrounds, small fonts, and the need for real-time detection. We proposed a robust Car-mounted Video Text Detector (CVTD). It is a lightweight text detection model based on ResNet18 for feature extraction, capable of detecting text in arbitrary shapes. Our model efficiently extracted global text positions through the Coordinate Attention Threshold Activation (CATA) and… More >

Haipeng Sun^1,2, Xueyan Ding^1,2,*, Jian Sun^1,2, Hua Yu³, Jianxin Zhang^1,2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.78, No.2, pp. 2721-2739, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.046449

Abstract Aiming at the challenges associated with the absence of a labeled dataset for Yi characters and the complexity of Yi character detection and recognition, we present a deep learning-based approach for Yi character detection and recognition. In the detection stage, an improved Differentiable Binarization Network (DBNet) framework is introduced to detect Yi characters, in which the Omni-dimensional Dynamic Convolution (ODConv) is combined with the ResNet-18 feature extraction module to obtain multi-dimensional complementary features, thereby improving the accuracy of Yi character detection. Then, the feature pyramid network fusion module is used to further extract Yi character image features, improving target recognition… More >

Turki M. Alanazi^*

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.36, No.3, pp. 3343-3354, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.036411

Abstract Detecting and recognizing text from natural scene images presents a challenge because the image quality depends on the conditions in which the image is captured, such as viewing angles, blurring, sensor noise, etc. However, in this paper, a prototype for text detection and recognition from natural scene images is proposed. This prototype is based on the Raspberry Pi 4 and the Universal Serial Bus (USB) camera and embedded our text detection and recognition model, which was developed using the Python language. Our model is based on the deep learning text detector model through the Efficient and Accurate Scene Text Detector… More >

T. Mithila^1,*, R. Arunprakash², A. Ramachandran³

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.42, No.3, pp. 1165-1179, 2022, DOI:10.32604/csse.2022.023308

Abstract In today’s real world, an important research part in image processing is scene text detection and recognition. Scene text can be in different languages, fonts, sizes, colours, orientations and structures. Moreover, the aspect ratios and layouts of a scene text may differ significantly. All these variations appear assignificant challenges for the detection and recognition algorithms that are considered for the text in natural scenes. In this paper, a new intelligent text detection and recognition method for detectingthe text from natural scenes and forrecognizing the text by applying the newly proposed Conditional Random Field-based fuzzy rules incorporated Convolutional Neural Network (CR-CNN)… More >

I. Muthumani^1,*, N. Malmurugan², L. Ganesan³

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.31, No.2, pp. 917-928, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.018030

Abstract Text content in videos includes applications such as library video retrievals, live-streaming advertisements, opinion mining, and video synthesis. The key components of such systems include video text detection and acknowledgments. This paper provides a framework to detect and accept text video frames, aiming specifically at the cursive script of Tamil text. The model consists of a text detector, script identifier, and text recognizer. The identification in video frames of textual regions is performed using deep neural networks as object detectors. Textual script content is associated with convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and recognized by combining ResNet CNNs with long short-term memory… More >

Junjie Qu, Jin Liu^*, Chao Yu

Journal of Information Hiding and Privacy Protection, Vol.3, No.2, pp. 83-89, 2021, DOI:10.32604/jihpp.2021.017181

Abstract Scene text detection is an important step in the scene text reading system. There are still two problems during the existing text detection methods: (1) The small receptive of the convolutional layer in text detection is not sufficiently sensitive to the target area in the image; (2) The deep receptive of the convolutional layer in text detection lose a lot of spatial feature information. Therefore, detecting scene text remains a challenging issue. In this work, we design an effective text detector named Adaptive Multi-Scale HyperNet (AMSHN) to improve texts detection performance. Specifically, AMSHN enhances the sensitivity of target semantics in… More >

Ujala Yasmeen¹, Jamal Hussain Shah¹, Muhammad Attique Khan², Ghulam Jillani Ansari¹, Saeed ur Rehman¹, Muhammad Sharif¹, Seifedine Kadry³, Yunyoung Nam^4,*

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.26, No.6, pp. 1251-1266, 2020, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2020.012775

Abstract Detection of textual data from scene text images is a very thought-provoking issue in the field of computer graphics and visualization. This challenge is even more complicated when edge intelligent devices are involved in the process. The low-quality image having challenges such as blur, low resolution, and contrast make it more difficult for text detection and classification. Therefore, such exigent aspect is considered in the study. The technology proposed is comprised of three main contributions. (a) After synthetic blurring, the blurred image is preprocessed, and then the deblurring process is applied to recover the image. (b) Subsequently, the standard maximal… More >

Shaozhang Niu^{1, *}, Xiangxiang Li¹, Maosen Wang¹, Yueying Li²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.65, No.3, pp. 2233-2245, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.09471

Abstract In recent years, images have played a more and more important role in our daily life and social communication. To some extent, the textual information contained in the pictures is an important factor in understanding the content of the scenes themselves. The more accurate the text detection of the natural scenes is, the more accurate our semantic understanding of the images will be. Thus, scene text detection has also become the hot spot in the domain of computer vision. In this paper, we have presented a modified text detection network which is based on further research and improvement of Connectionist… More >

Xueming Qiao¹, Yingxue Xia¹, Weiyi Zhu², Dongjie Zhu^{3, *}, Liang Kong¹, Chunxu Lin³, Zhenhao Guo³, Yiheng Sun³

Journal on Artificial Intelligence, Vol.2, No.1, pp. 29-37, 2020, DOI:10.32604/jai.2020.09955

Abstract Natural scene recognition has important significance and value in the fields of image retrieval, autonomous navigation, human-computer interaction and industrial automation. Firstly, the natural scene image non-text content takes up relatively high proportion; secondly, the natural scene images have a cluttered background and complex lighting conditions, angle, font and color. Therefore, how to extract text extreme regions efficiently from complex and varied natural scene images plays an important role in natural scene image text recognition. In this paper, a Text extremum region Extraction algorithm based on Joint-Channels (TEJC) is proposed. On the one hand, it can solve the problem that… More >