Caption Region Detection in Video Images by Improved Corner Detector

Abstract

Caption region detection is significant for text segmentation and recognition in video images. In this paper, caption region detection includes the following three steps: text corner detection, candidate text region generation, non-text region elimination. Firstly, an improved Harris corner detection algorithm based on second difference, called sHarris, is proposed to detect text corners. sHarris detector is effective to detect text corners existing in video image. Secondly, morphologic operations are utilized to generate candidate text regions after text corner points are detected. Finally, non-text regions are eliminated from candidate text regions by some validation rules. In the end of this paper, experiments are used to analyze and evaluate the detection results of caption regions, which indicate the effectiveness of the proposed method.