Extraction of Character String Areas from Color Scenery Image Using Extended Psychological Potential Field

As digital cameras have been used widely, a technology to extract features of character string areas from scenery (nature) image is required. However, it is very difficult to extract character string areas from a complex background of scenery image as compared with a relatively simple background of documentary image. Human can extract character string areas from scenery image having complex background. Therefore, a fairly high degree of accuracy in the extraction of character string areas may be attained by imitating the human visual processing system. In this paper we proposed the method to extract character string areas from color scenery images using the extended psychological potential field (imitating the human visual processing system). The conventional psychological potential field method has the problem that it is hard to be applied to multilevel images such as color scenery images. This paper proposes a new extended psychological potential field method that has improved the c...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2002
• Where: MVA
• Authors: Masanori Anegawa, Akira Nakamura
• Keywords: Character String Areas, Computer Vision, Images, MVA 2002, Psychological Potential Field