Research Article

A Method of Effective Text Extraction for Complex Video Scene

Table 1

Text extraction accuracy of four different kinds of video images.

Video typeNumber of text regionsAccuracy (%)
Otsu [17] Sato et al. [18] Lyu et al. [19] Song et al. [20] Shivakumara et al. [21]Our
algorithm

Movie (121 frames)43260.969.886.972.478.692.1
News (85 frames)26162.170.389.375.379.492.4
Sport (103 frames)36841.059.484.157.264.189.8
Cartoon (86 frames)25468.781.290.781.888.296.5

Total131558.270.187.871.777.692.7