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Visual Saliency Models for Text Detection in Real World.

Renwu Gao¹, Seiichi Uchida¹, Asif Shahab²

¹Department of Advanced Information technology, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan.

|December 11, 2014

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This study shows that scene texts are more visually salient than backgrounds. A new hierarchical visual saliency model effectively extracts these texts from natural scenes.

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Area of Science:

Computer Vision
Image Processing
Artificial Intelligence

Background:

Evaluating text saliency in natural scenes is crucial for applications like scene text recognition.
Existing visual saliency models require evaluation for their effectiveness in identifying text elements within complex backgrounds.

Purpose of the Study:

To assess the saliency of text in natural scenes using computational visual saliency models.
To propose and evaluate a novel hierarchical visual saliency model for improved scene text extraction.

Main Methods:

Creation of a large-scale scene image database with pixel-level ground truth.
Calculation of visual saliency maps using five state-of-the-art models, including Itti's model with various features.
Evaluation of saliency using Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curves and visualization techniques.
Development of a two-stage hierarchical visual saliency model incorporating Itti's model and Otsu's thresholding.

Main Results:

Text characters demonstrate higher visual saliency compared to non-textual neighbors in natural scenes.
The proposed hierarchical visual saliency model significantly outperforms Itti's model in capturing scene texts.
Visualization confirms that scene texts are distinguishable from the background due to their saliency.

Conclusions:

Scene texts possess inherent visual saliency that can be leveraged for extraction.
The hierarchical visual saliency model offers a more effective approach for scene text detection and extraction compared to traditional methods.
This research contributes to advancing the field of scene text understanding and retrieval.