Automatic Location of Text in Video Frames Xian-Sheng Hua, Xiang-Rong Chen, Liu Wenyin, and Hong-Jiang Zhang   View Paper (PDF)   Return to SEARCHING AND INFORMATION EXTRACTION Abstract A new automatic text location approach for videos is proposed. Firstofall, the corner points of the selected video frames are detected. After deleting some isolate corners, we merge the remaining corners to form candidate text regions.The regions are then decomposed vertically and horizontally using edge maps of the video frames to get candidate text lines. Finally, a text box verification step based on the features derived from edge maps is taken to significantly reduce false alarms. Experimental results show that the new text location scheme proposed in this paper is accurate. DiSC'02 © 2003 Association for Computing Machinery