Text characters embedded in images represent a rich source of information for content-based indexing and retrieval applications. However, these text characters are difficult to be detected and recognized due to their ...Text characters embedded in images represent a rich source of information for content-based indexing and retrieval applications. However, these text characters are difficult to be detected and recognized due to their various sizes, grayscale values, and complex backgrounds. Existing methods cannot handle well those texts with different contrast or embedded in a complex image background. In this paper, a set of sequential algorithms for text extraction and enhancement of image using cellular automata are proposed. The image enhancement includes gray level, contrast manipulation, edge detection, and filtering. First, it applies edge detection and uses a threshold to filter out for low-contrast text and simplify complex background of high-contrast text from binary image. The proposed algorithm is simple and easy to use and requires only a sample texture binary image as an input. It generates textures with perceived quality, better than those proposed by earlier published techniques. The performance of our method is demonstrated by presenting experimental results for a set of text based binary images. The quality of thresholding is assessed using the precision and recall analysis of the resultant text in the binary image.展开更多
In the context of constructing an embedded system to help visually impaired people to interpret text,in this paper,an efficient High-level synthesis(HLS)Hardware/Software(HW/SW)design for text extraction using the Gam...In the context of constructing an embedded system to help visually impaired people to interpret text,in this paper,an efficient High-level synthesis(HLS)Hardware/Software(HW/SW)design for text extraction using the Gamma Correction Method(GCM)is proposed.Indeed,the GCM is a common method used to extract text from a complex color image and video.The purpose of this work is to study the complexity of the GCM method on Xilinx ZCU102 FPGA board and to propose a HW implementation as Intellectual Property(IP)block of the critical blocks in this method using HLS flow with taking account the quality of the text extraction.This IP is integrated and connected to the ARM Cortex-A53 as coprocessor in HW/SW codesign context.The experimental results show that theHLS HW/SW implementation of the GCM method on ZCU102 FPGA board allows a reduction in processing time by about 89%compared to the SW implementation.This result is given for the same potency and strength of SW implementation for the text extraction.展开更多
Text extraction is an important initial step in digitizing the historical documents. In this paper, we present a text extraction method for historical Tibetan document images based on block projections. The task of te...Text extraction is an important initial step in digitizing the historical documents. In this paper, we present a text extraction method for historical Tibetan document images based on block projections. The task of text extraction is considered as text area detection and location problem. The images are divided equally into blocks and the blocks are filtered by the information of the categories of connected components and corner point density. By analyzing the filtered blocks' projections, the approximate text areas can be located, and the text regions are extracted. Experiments on the dataset of historical Tibetan documents demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.展开更多
Many Text Extraction methodologies have been proposed, but none of them are suitable to be part of a real system implemented on a device with low computational resources, either because their accuracy is insufficient,...Many Text Extraction methodologies have been proposed, but none of them are suitable to be part of a real system implemented on a device with low computational resources, either because their accuracy is insufficient, or because their performance is too slow. In this sense, we propose a Text Extraction algorithm for the context of language translation of scene text images with mobile phones, which is fast and accurate at the same time. The algorithm uses very efficient computations to calculate the Principal Color Components of a previously quantized image, and decides which ones are the main foreground-background colors, after which it extracts the text in the image. We have compared our algorithm with other algorithms using commercial OCR, achieving accuracy rates more than 12% higher, and performing two times faster. Also, our methodology is more robust against common degradations, such as uneven illumination, or blurring. Thus, we developed a very attractive system to accurately separate foreground and background from scene text images, working over low computational resources devices.展开更多
This paper presents a new method for text detection, location and binarization from natural scenes. Several morphological steps are used to detect the general position of the text, including English, Chinese and Japan...This paper presents a new method for text detection, location and binarization from natural scenes. Several morphological steps are used to detect the general position of the text, including English, Chinese and Japanese characters. Next bonnding boxes are processed by a new “Expand, Break and Merge” （EBM） method to get the precise text areas. Finally, text is binarized by a hybrid method based on Otsu and Niblack. This new approach can extract different kinds of text from complicated natural scenes. It is insensitive to noise, distortedness, and text orientation. It also has good performance on extracting texts in various sizes.展开更多
In the era of Big Data,we are faced with an inevitable and challenging problem of“overload information”.To alleviate this problem,it is important to use effective automatic text summarization techniques to obtain th...In the era of Big Data,we are faced with an inevitable and challenging problem of“overload information”.To alleviate this problem,it is important to use effective automatic text summarization techniques to obtain the key information quickly and efficiently from the huge amount of text.In this paper,we propose a hybrid method of extractive text summarization based on deep learning and graph ranking algorithms(ETSDG).In this method,a pre-trained deep learning model is designed to yield useful sentence embeddings.Given the association between sentences in raw documents,a traditional LexRank algorithm with fine-tuning is adopted fin ETSDG.In order to improve the performance of the extractive text summarization method,we further integrate the traditional LexRank algorithm with deep learning.Testing results on the data set DUC2004 show that ETSDG has better performance in ROUGE metrics compared with certain benchmark methods.展开更多
Natural scene recognition has important significance and value in the fields of image retrieval,autonomous navigation,human-computer interaction and industrial automation.Firstly,the natural scene image non-text conte...Natural scene recognition has important significance and value in the fields of image retrieval,autonomous navigation,human-computer interaction and industrial automation.Firstly,the natural scene image non-text content takes up relatively high proportion;secondly,the natural scene images have a cluttered background and complex lighting conditions,angle,font and color.Therefore,how to extract text extreme regions efficiently from complex and varied natural scene images plays an important role in natural scene image text recognition.In this paper,a Text extremum region Extraction algorithm based on Joint-Channels(TEJC)is proposed.On the one hand,it can solve the problem that the maximum stable extremum region(MSER)algorithm is only suitable for gray images and difficult to process color images.On the other hand,it solves the problem that the MSER algorithm has high complexity and low accuracy when extracting the most stable extreme region.In this paper,the proposed algorithm is tested and evaluated on the ICDAR data set.The experimental results show that the method has superiority.展开更多
This investigation has presented an approach to Extractive Automatic Text Summarization (EATS). A framework focused on the summary of a single document has been developed, using the Tf-ldf method (Frequency Term, Inve...This investigation has presented an approach to Extractive Automatic Text Summarization (EATS). A framework focused on the summary of a single document has been developed, using the Tf-ldf method (Frequency Term, Inverse Document Frequency) as a reference, dividing the document into a subset of documents and generating value of each of the words contained in each document, those documents that show Tf-Idf equal or higher than the threshold are those that represent greater importance, therefore;can be weighted and generate a text summary according to the user’s request. This document represents a derived model of text mining application in today’s world. We demonstrate the way of performing the summarization. Random values were used to check its performance. The experimented results show a satisfactory and understandable summary and summaries were found to be able to run efficiently and quickly, showing which are the most important text sentences according to the threshold selected by the user.展开更多
Text representation is a key aspect in determining the success of various text summarizing techniques.Summarization using pretrained transformer models has produced encouraging results.Yet the scope of applying these ...Text representation is a key aspect in determining the success of various text summarizing techniques.Summarization using pretrained transformer models has produced encouraging results.Yet the scope of applying these models in medical and drug discovery is not examined to a proper extent.To address this issue,this article aims to perform extractive summarization based on fine-tuned transformers pertaining to drug and medical domain.This research also aims to enhance sentence representation.Exploring the extractive text summarization aspects of medical and drug discovery is a challenging task as the datasets are limited.Hence,this research concentrates on the collection of abstracts collected from PubMed for various domains of medical and drug discovery such as drug and COVID,with a total capacity of 1,370 abstracts.A detailed experimentation using BART(Bidirectional Autoregressive Transformer),T5(Text-to-Text Transfer Transformer),LexRank,and TexRank for the analysis of the dataset is carried out in this research to perform extractive text summarization.展开更多
Retrieving information from evolving digital data collection using a user’s query is always essential and needs efficient retrieval mechanisms that help reduce the required time from such massive collections.Large-sc...Retrieving information from evolving digital data collection using a user’s query is always essential and needs efficient retrieval mechanisms that help reduce the required time from such massive collections.Large-scale time consumption is certain to scan and analyze to retrieve the most relevant textual data item from all the documents required a sophisticated technique for a query against the document collection.It is always challenging to retrieve a more accurate and fast retrieval from a large collection.Text summarization is a dominant research field in information retrieval and text processing to locate the most appropriate data object as single or multiple documents from the collection.Machine learning and knowledge-based techniques are the two query-based extractive text summarization techniques in Natural Language Processing(NLP)which can be used for precise retrieval and are considered to be the best option.NLP uses machine learning approaches for both supervised and unsupervised learning for calculating probabilistic features.The study aims to propose a hybrid approach for query-based extractive text summarization in the research study.Text-Rank Algorithm is used as a core algorithm for the flow of an implementation of the approach to gain the required goals.Query-based text summarization of multiple documents using a hybrid approach,combining the K-Means clustering technique with Latent Dirichlet Allocation(LDA)as topic modeling technique produces 0.288,0.631,and 0.328 for precision,recall,and F-score,respectively.The results show that the proposed hybrid approach performs better than the graph-based independent approach and the sentences and word frequency-based approach.展开更多
This paper had developed and tested optimized content extraction algorithm using NLP method, TFIDF method for word of weight, VSM for information search, cosine method for similar quality calculation from learning doc...This paper had developed and tested optimized content extraction algorithm using NLP method, TFIDF method for word of weight, VSM for information search, cosine method for similar quality calculation from learning document at the distance learning system database. This test covered following things: 1) to parse word structure at the distance learning system database documents and Cyrillic Mongolian language documents at the section, to form new documents by algorithm for identifying word stem;2) to test optimized content extraction from text material based on e-test results (key word, correct answer, base form with affix and new form formed by word stem without affix) at distance learning system, also to search key word by automatically selecting using word extraction algorithm;3) to test Boolean and probabilistic retrieval method through extended vector space retrieval method. This chapter covers: to process document content extraction retrieval algorithm, to propose recommendations query through word stem, not depending on word position based on Cyrillic Mongolian language documents distinction.展开更多
Aiming at the problem that the mathematical expressions in unstructured text fields of documents are hard to be extracted automatically, rapidly and effectively, a method based on Hidden Markov Model (HMM) is proposed...Aiming at the problem that the mathematical expressions in unstructured text fields of documents are hard to be extracted automatically, rapidly and effectively, a method based on Hidden Markov Model (HMM) is proposed. Firstly, this method trained the HMM model through employing the symbol combination features of mathematical expressions. Then, some preprocessing works such as removing labels and filtering words were carried out. Finally, the preprocessed text was converted into an observation sequence as the input of the HMM model to determine which is the mathematical expression and extracts it. The experimental results show that the proposed method can effectively extract the mathematical expressions from the text fields of documents, and also has the relatively high accuracy rate and recall rate.展开更多
文摘Text characters embedded in images represent a rich source of information for content-based indexing and retrieval applications. However, these text characters are difficult to be detected and recognized due to their various sizes, grayscale values, and complex backgrounds. Existing methods cannot handle well those texts with different contrast or embedded in a complex image background. In this paper, a set of sequential algorithms for text extraction and enhancement of image using cellular automata are proposed. The image enhancement includes gray level, contrast manipulation, edge detection, and filtering. First, it applies edge detection and uses a threshold to filter out for low-contrast text and simplify complex background of high-contrast text from binary image. The proposed algorithm is simple and easy to use and requires only a sample texture binary image as an input. It generates textures with perceived quality, better than those proposed by earlier published techniques. The performance of our method is demonstrated by presenting experimental results for a set of text based binary images. The quality of thresholding is assessed using the precision and recall analysis of the resultant text in the binary image.
文摘In the context of constructing an embedded system to help visually impaired people to interpret text,in this paper,an efficient High-level synthesis(HLS)Hardware/Software(HW/SW)design for text extraction using the Gamma Correction Method(GCM)is proposed.Indeed,the GCM is a common method used to extract text from a complex color image and video.The purpose of this work is to study the complexity of the GCM method on Xilinx ZCU102 FPGA board and to propose a HW implementation as Intellectual Property(IP)block of the critical blocks in this method using HLS flow with taking account the quality of the text extraction.This IP is integrated and connected to the ARM Cortex-A53 as coprocessor in HW/SW codesign context.The experimental results show that theHLS HW/SW implementation of the GCM method on ZCU102 FPGA board allows a reduction in processing time by about 89%compared to the SW implementation.This result is given for the same potency and strength of SW implementation for the text extraction.
基金supported by the Innovation Platform Construction of Qinghai Province(No.2016-ZJ-Y04)the Basic Research Program of Qinghai Province(No.2016-ZJ-740)
文摘Text extraction is an important initial step in digitizing the historical documents. In this paper, we present a text extraction method for historical Tibetan document images based on block projections. The task of text extraction is considered as text area detection and location problem. The images are divided equally into blocks and the blocks are filtered by the information of the categories of connected components and corner point density. By analyzing the filtered blocks' projections, the approximate text areas can be located, and the text regions are extracted. Experiments on the dataset of historical Tibetan documents demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
文摘Many Text Extraction methodologies have been proposed, but none of them are suitable to be part of a real system implemented on a device with low computational resources, either because their accuracy is insufficient, or because their performance is too slow. In this sense, we propose a Text Extraction algorithm for the context of language translation of scene text images with mobile phones, which is fast and accurate at the same time. The algorithm uses very efficient computations to calculate the Principal Color Components of a previously quantized image, and decides which ones are the main foreground-background colors, after which it extracts the text in the image. We have compared our algorithm with other algorithms using commercial OCR, achieving accuracy rates more than 12% higher, and performing two times faster. Also, our methodology is more robust against common degradations, such as uneven illumination, or blurring. Thus, we developed a very attractive system to accurately separate foreground and background from scene text images, working over low computational resources devices.
文摘This paper presents a new method for text detection, location and binarization from natural scenes. Several morphological steps are used to detect the general position of the text, including English, Chinese and Japanese characters. Next bonnding boxes are processed by a new “Expand, Break and Merge” （EBM） method to get the precise text areas. Finally, text is binarized by a hybrid method based on Otsu and Niblack. This new approach can extract different kinds of text from complicated natural scenes. It is insensitive to noise, distortedness, and text orientation. It also has good performance on extracting texts in various sizes.
文摘In the era of Big Data,we are faced with an inevitable and challenging problem of“overload information”.To alleviate this problem,it is important to use effective automatic text summarization techniques to obtain the key information quickly and efficiently from the huge amount of text.In this paper,we propose a hybrid method of extractive text summarization based on deep learning and graph ranking algorithms(ETSDG).In this method,a pre-trained deep learning model is designed to yield useful sentence embeddings.Given the association between sentences in raw documents,a traditional LexRank algorithm with fine-tuning is adopted fin ETSDG.In order to improve the performance of the extractive text summarization method,we further integrate the traditional LexRank algorithm with deep learning.Testing results on the data set DUC2004 show that ETSDG has better performance in ROUGE metrics compared with certain benchmark methods.
基金This work is supported by State Grid Shandong Electric Power Company Science and Technology Project Funding under Grant Nos.520613180002,62061318C002the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(Grant No.HIT.NSRIF.201714)+1 种基金Weihai Science and Technology Development Program(2016DX GJMS15)Key Research and Development Program in Shandong Provincial(2017GGX90103).
文摘Natural scene recognition has important significance and value in the fields of image retrieval,autonomous navigation,human-computer interaction and industrial automation.Firstly,the natural scene image non-text content takes up relatively high proportion;secondly,the natural scene images have a cluttered background and complex lighting conditions,angle,font and color.Therefore,how to extract text extreme regions efficiently from complex and varied natural scene images plays an important role in natural scene image text recognition.In this paper,a Text extremum region Extraction algorithm based on Joint-Channels(TEJC)is proposed.On the one hand,it can solve the problem that the maximum stable extremum region(MSER)algorithm is only suitable for gray images and difficult to process color images.On the other hand,it solves the problem that the MSER algorithm has high complexity and low accuracy when extracting the most stable extreme region.In this paper,the proposed algorithm is tested and evaluated on the ICDAR data set.The experimental results show that the method has superiority.
文摘This investigation has presented an approach to Extractive Automatic Text Summarization (EATS). A framework focused on the summary of a single document has been developed, using the Tf-ldf method (Frequency Term, Inverse Document Frequency) as a reference, dividing the document into a subset of documents and generating value of each of the words contained in each document, those documents that show Tf-Idf equal or higher than the threshold are those that represent greater importance, therefore;can be weighted and generate a text summary according to the user’s request. This document represents a derived model of text mining application in today’s world. We demonstrate the way of performing the summarization. Random values were used to check its performance. The experimented results show a satisfactory and understandable summary and summaries were found to be able to run efficiently and quickly, showing which are the most important text sentences according to the threshold selected by the user.
文摘Text representation is a key aspect in determining the success of various text summarizing techniques.Summarization using pretrained transformer models has produced encouraging results.Yet the scope of applying these models in medical and drug discovery is not examined to a proper extent.To address this issue,this article aims to perform extractive summarization based on fine-tuned transformers pertaining to drug and medical domain.This research also aims to enhance sentence representation.Exploring the extractive text summarization aspects of medical and drug discovery is a challenging task as the datasets are limited.Hence,this research concentrates on the collection of abstracts collected from PubMed for various domains of medical and drug discovery such as drug and COVID,with a total capacity of 1,370 abstracts.A detailed experimentation using BART(Bidirectional Autoregressive Transformer),T5(Text-to-Text Transfer Transformer),LexRank,and TexRank for the analysis of the dataset is carried out in this research to perform extractive text summarization.
文摘Retrieving information from evolving digital data collection using a user’s query is always essential and needs efficient retrieval mechanisms that help reduce the required time from such massive collections.Large-scale time consumption is certain to scan and analyze to retrieve the most relevant textual data item from all the documents required a sophisticated technique for a query against the document collection.It is always challenging to retrieve a more accurate and fast retrieval from a large collection.Text summarization is a dominant research field in information retrieval and text processing to locate the most appropriate data object as single or multiple documents from the collection.Machine learning and knowledge-based techniques are the two query-based extractive text summarization techniques in Natural Language Processing(NLP)which can be used for precise retrieval and are considered to be the best option.NLP uses machine learning approaches for both supervised and unsupervised learning for calculating probabilistic features.The study aims to propose a hybrid approach for query-based extractive text summarization in the research study.Text-Rank Algorithm is used as a core algorithm for the flow of an implementation of the approach to gain the required goals.Query-based text summarization of multiple documents using a hybrid approach,combining the K-Means clustering technique with Latent Dirichlet Allocation(LDA)as topic modeling technique produces 0.288,0.631,and 0.328 for precision,recall,and F-score,respectively.The results show that the proposed hybrid approach performs better than the graph-based independent approach and the sentences and word frequency-based approach.
文摘This paper had developed and tested optimized content extraction algorithm using NLP method, TFIDF method for word of weight, VSM for information search, cosine method for similar quality calculation from learning document at the distance learning system database. This test covered following things: 1) to parse word structure at the distance learning system database documents and Cyrillic Mongolian language documents at the section, to form new documents by algorithm for identifying word stem;2) to test optimized content extraction from text material based on e-test results (key word, correct answer, base form with affix and new form formed by word stem without affix) at distance learning system, also to search key word by automatically selecting using word extraction algorithm;3) to test Boolean and probabilistic retrieval method through extended vector space retrieval method. This chapter covers: to process document content extraction retrieval algorithm, to propose recommendations query through word stem, not depending on word position based on Cyrillic Mongolian language documents distinction.
文摘Aiming at the problem that the mathematical expressions in unstructured text fields of documents are hard to be extracted automatically, rapidly and effectively, a method based on Hidden Markov Model (HMM) is proposed. Firstly, this method trained the HMM model through employing the symbol combination features of mathematical expressions. Then, some preprocessing works such as removing labels and filtering words were carried out. Finally, the preprocessed text was converted into an observation sequence as the input of the HMM model to determine which is the mathematical expression and extracts it. The experimental results show that the proposed method can effectively extract the mathematical expressions from the text fields of documents, and also has the relatively high accuracy rate and recall rate.
