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Enhanced Characterness for Text Detection in the Wild
Text spotting is an interesting research problem as text may appear at any
random place and may occur in various forms. Moreover, ability to detect text
opens the horizons for improving many advanced computer vision problems. In
this paper, we propose a novel language agnostic text detection method
utilizing edge enhanced Maximally Stable Extremal Regions in natural scenes by
defining strong characterness measures. We show that a simple combination of
characterness cues help in rejecting the non text regions. These regions are
further fine-tuned for rejecting the non-textual neighbor regions.
Comprehensive evaluation of the proposed scheme shows that it provides
comparative to better generalization performance to the traditional methods for
this task
A Novel Scheme for Intelligent Recognition of Pornographic Images
Harmful contents are rising in internet day by day and this motivates the
essence of more research in fast and reliable obscene and immoral material
filtering. Pornographic image recognition is an important component in each
filtering system. In this paper, a new approach for detecting pornographic
images is introduced. In this approach, two new features are suggested. These
two features in combination with other simple traditional features provide
decent difference between porn and non-porn images. In addition, we applied
fuzzy integral based information fusion to combine MLP (Multi-Layer Perceptron)
and NF (Neuro-Fuzzy) outputs. To test the proposed method, performance of
system was evaluated over 18354 download images from internet. The attained
precision was 93% in TP and 8% in FP on training dataset, and 87% and 5.5% on
test dataset. Achieved results verify the performance of proposed system versus
other related works
Hausdorff-Distance Enhanced Matching of Scale Invariant Feature Transform Descriptors in Context of Image Querying
Reliable and effective matching of visual descriptors is a key step for many vision applications, e.g. image retrieval. In this paper, we propose to integrate the Hausdorff distance matching together with our pairing algorithm, in order to obtain a robust while computationally efficient process of matching feature descriptors for image-to-image querying in standards datasets. For this purpose, Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) descriptors have been matched using our presented algorithm, followed by the computation of our related similarity measure. This approach has shown excellent performance in both retrieval accuracy and speed
Plant image retrieval using color, shape and texture features
We present a content-based image retrieval system for plant image retrieval, intended especially for the house plant identification problem. A plant image consists of a collection of overlapping leaves and possibly flowers, which makes the problem challenging.We studied the suitability of various well-known color, shape and texture features for this problem, as well as introducing some new texture matching techniques and shape features. Feature extraction is applied after segmenting the plant region from the background using the max-flow min-cut technique. Results on a database of 380 plant images belonging to 78 different types of plants show promise of the proposed new techniques
and the overall system: in 55% of the queries, the correct plant image is retrieved among the top-15 results. Furthermore, the accuracy goes up to 73% when a 132-image subset of well-segmented plant images are considered
Hybrid image representation methods for automatic image annotation: a survey
In most automatic image annotation systems, images are represented with low level features using either global
methods or local methods. In global methods, the entire image is used as a unit. Local methods divide images into blocks where fixed-size sub-image blocks are adopted as sub-units; or into regions by using segmented regions as sub-units in images. In contrast to typical automatic image annotation methods that use either global or local features exclusively, several recent methods have considered incorporating the two kinds of information, and believe that the combination of the two levels of features is
beneficial in annotating images. In this paper, we provide a
survey on automatic image annotation techniques according to
one aspect: feature extraction, and, in order to complement
existing surveys in literature, we focus on the emerging image annotation methods: hybrid methods that combine both global and local features for image representation
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