Text detection on images

• Main Author: Zhang, Luwei
• Other Authors: Kot Chichung, Alex
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering::Computer hardware, software and systems
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/54595
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Detecting whether an image contains a short article becomes important these days. This project introduces a technique to detect whether there is a hidden short propaganda article embedded in an image to avoid censorship through text filtering. The Stroke Width Transform, image binaryzation and discr...