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    Text-background decomposition for thai text localization and recognition in natural scenes
    (2014-01-12) ; ;
    Suttapakti, Ungsumalee
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    Boonchukusol, Pimlak
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    Thai text localization and recognition in natural scenes is still a grand challenge in current applications. However, the efficiency of recognition rates depends on text localization, i.e., the higher purity of text-background decomposition leads to the higher accuracy rate of character recognition. In order to achieve this purpose, the text-background decomposition methods, namely adaptive boundary clustering (ABC) and n-point boundary clustering (n-PBC), are proposed to improve a precision of text localization. These methods are evaluated by self-en-tropy for purity measure. Based on 300 test images, the experimental results demonstrate that the ABC method achieves the very low self-entropy, i.e., the low self-entropy implies the good decomposition of text and background. Furthermore, based on 8,077 characters in natural scene test images, the ABC method helps increase the precision of text localization and improves the accuracy rate of character recognition, when compared to the conventional methods.
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    Iteration-free Bi-dimensional empirical mode decomposition and its application
    powerful methods for decomposing non-linear and nonstationary signals without a prior function. It can be applied in many applications such as feature extraction, image compression, and image filtering. Although modified BEMDs are proposed in several approaches, computational cost and quality of their bi-dimensional intrinsic mode function (BIMF) still require an improvement. In this paper, an iteration-free computation method for bi-dimensional empirical mode decomposition, called iBEMD, is proposed. The locally partial correlation for principal component analysis (LPC-PCA) is a novel technique to extract BIMFs from an original signal without using extrema detection. This dramatically reduces the computation time. The LPC-PCA technique also enhances the quality of BIMFs by reducing artifacts. The experimental results, when compared with state-of-The-Art methods, show that the proposed iBEMD method can achieve the faster computation of BIMF extraction and the higher quality of BIMF image. Furthermore, the iBEMD method can clearly remove an illumination component of nature scene images under illumination change, thereby improving the performance of text localization and recognition.
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    An improved 2DPCA for face recognition under illumination effects
    (2015-01-01) ;
    Sornnoi, Monmorakot
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    Leelaburanapong, Savita
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    Varakulsiripunth, Ruttikorn
    Principal component analysis (PCA) is one of the successful techniques for applying to face recognition, but its challenge still remains for solving an illumination effect condition. This paper proposes an improved 2DPCA (I-2DPCA) for overwhelming the illumination effect in face recognition. The proposed method is based on two assumptions. The first assumption is to create the covariance matrix that can effectively decompose the components of illumination effects from the eigenfaces. This avoids the illumination effect problem. The second assumption is to select the suitable eigenvectors that can significantly improve the recognition rate. Based on the Extended Yale Face Database B+ containing 60 illumination conditions, the experimental results show that not only does the proposed method decrease the computing time, but it also improves the recognition rate up to 95.93%.
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    Printed Thai character recognition using standard descriptor
    The various font-types, font-sizes, and font-styles have a great impact on recognition performance of optical character recognition (OCR) systems. This becomes a grand challenge for recognition improvement. In order to enhance the performance, this paper proposes the printed Thai character recognition using a standard descriptor. The descriptor construction consists of two principal phases-preprocessing and feature extraction. In the former phase, the preprocessing provides a standard form for each character image. In the latter phase, the singular value decomposition (SVD) is applied to all font-type, fontsize, and font-style character images to extract features. Then the standard descriptor is constructed from the suitable order selection of the SVD feature decomposition. Finally, the projection matrix technique is applied to the recognition phase in order to measure the cosine similarity between the standard descriptor and test set. The experimental results show that the proposed method achieves a high recognition rate and is invariant to font-types, font-sizes, and font-styles. © 2013 Springer-Verlag.
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    Texture analysis assessment for images
    (2017-02-23) ;
    Kaewaramsri, Yothin
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    Suttapakti, Ungsumalee
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    Kuroki, Yoshimitsu
    Commonly, the existing metrics such as mean square error (MSE), peak signal-To-noise ratio (PSNR), quality index (QI), structural similarity index metric (SSIM), and quality index based on local variance (QILV) use the image intensity-based statistics approach to assess the quality of distorted images. These metrics are successful in discriminating the quality of distorted images, such as de-noising, JPEG compressed, and blur images. However, they are unsuccessful in discriminating the quality of channel decomposition images. Therefore, this paper proposes the texture analysis assessment (TAA) to measure the quality of both normally distorted images and channel decomposition images. The proposed metric uses image intensity statistics in conjunction with texture analysis for quality discrimination of slightly different distorted and channel decomposition images. The texture analysis based on edge orientation is an important part employed to measure precise image errors. The experimental results illustrate that the TAA metric can evidently discriminate the quality of normally distorted images and channel decomposition images, when compared with state-of-The-Art metrics. Furthermore, the perceived visual quality and the quality value of TAA are corresponding; the lower visual quality human-eye perceives, the lower quality value TAA measures, and vice versa.
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    Image Denoising Based on Structural BIMF
    Image denoising is an important process for image analysis. It is always a pre-processing step before feeding its result to the next process. Although many papers based on statistical filter are presented for noise reduction, those still need to improve the quality of image. Bidimensional empirical mode decomposition (BEMD) is an adaptive image analysis method without a prior function for non-linear and non-stationary images in many applications. One of them is image denoising. The BEMD method can reduce the information loss by separating the noised and fundamental components into different bidimensional intrinsic mode function (BIMF) components. This makes it to be effective and flexible method. Therefore, this paper proposes image denoising based on structural BIMF. The proposed method not only removes the noise from noised image but also retrieves the main structure from noised image. Based on 44 noised images, the experimental results demonstrate that the performance of the proposed method outperforms that of baseline methods in terms of image quality assessments: PSNR, Qi, and TAA.
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    Adaptive Histogram of Oriented Gradient for Printed Thai Character Recognition
    A similarity of printed Thai characters is a grand challenge of optical character recognition (OCR), especially in case of a variety of font types, sizes, and styles. This paper proposes an effective feature extraction, adaptive histogram of oriented gradient (AHOG), for overcoming the character similarity. The proposed method improves the conventional histogram of oriented gradient (HOG) in two principal phases, which are (i) adaptive partition for gradient images and (ii) adaptive binning for oriented histograms. The former is implemented with quadtree partition based on gradient image variance so as to provide for an effective local feature extraction. The later is implemented with non-uniform mapping technique, so that the AHOG descriptor can be constructed with minimal errors. Based on 59,408 single character images equally divided into training and testing samples, the experimental results show that the AHOG method outperforms the conventional HOG and state-of-the-art methods, including scale space histogram of oriented gradient (SSHOG), pyramid histogram of oriented gradient (PHOG), multilevel histogram of oriented gradient (MHOG), and HOG column encoding algorithm (HOG-Column). © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014.