Publication
Extraction of Text Touching Graphics using SURF
Sheraz Ahmed; Marcus Liwicki; Andreas Dengel
In: 10th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems. IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS-2012), 10th, March 27-29, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, Pages 349-353, IEEE, 2012.
Abstract
In this paper we propose a novel part-based method for the extraction of text touching graphic components. The Speeded Up Robust Features (SURF) are used to localize the text components and distinguish them from graphics. We introduce several post-processing steps to finally detect the text. We have tested our method on a publicly available data set of architectural floor plans and on real geographical maps. On floor plans we have located more than 95% of the text components which were not identified as text beforehand because they were touching graphic components