A new ring radius transform-based thinning method for multi-oriented video characters

• Main Authors: Wu, Y., Shivakumara, P., Wei, W., Lu, T., Pal, U.
• Format: Article
• Published: Springer Verlag (Germany) 2015
• Subjects: QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/19427/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10032-015-0238-y
• Institution: Universiti Malaya

Thinning that preserves visual topology of characters in video is challenging in the field of document analysis and video text analysis due to low resolution and complex background. This paper proposes to explore ring radius transform (RRT) to generate a radius map from Canny edges of each input ima...