A comprehensive scheme for tattoo text detection

Banerjee, Ayan and Shivakumara, Palaiahnakote and Pal, Umapada and Raghavendra, Ramachandra and Liu, Cheng-Lin (2022) A comprehensive scheme for tattoo text detection. Pattern Recognition Letters, 163. pp. 168-179. ISSN 0167-8655, DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2022.10.007.

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Abstract

Tattoo text detection provides a vital clue for person and crime identification. Due to the freestyle and unconstrained nature of handwritten tattoo text over skin regions, accurate tattoo text detection is very challenging. This paper proposes a comprehensive scheme for tattoo text detection which comprises (a) adaptive Deformable Convolutional Neural Network (DCNN) for skin region detection to reduce text detection complexity (b) a Decoupled Gradient Text Detector (DGTD) for tattoo text detection from skin region (c) a Deep Q-Network (DQN) to refine the bounding boxes detected by DGTD, and (d) a Term -Frequency-Inverse-Document-Frequency (TF-IDF) model to group the words into text lines based on se-mantic information to fix the bounding box for the line. To test the effectiveness, the proposed method is evaluated on different datasets, namely, (i) a newly developed tattoo text dataset, (ii) benchmark bib number dataset of the marathon, and (iii) person re-identification dataset. The proposed method achieves 91.2, 87.5, and 88.8 F-scores from these three respective datasets. To demonstrate its superior performance, the text detection module (without skin detection) is also compared with state-of-the-art scene text detection methods on benchmark datasets, namely, ICDAR 2019 ArT, Total-Text, and DAST1500 and the proposed method achieves 90.3, 88.5 and 89.8 F-score from these respective datasets. (c) 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.

Item Type: Article
Funders: Ministry of Education, Malaysia [FRGS/1/2020/ICT02/UM/02/4], TIH, ISI Kolkata
Uncontrolled Keywords: Recognition
Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Divisions: Faculty of Computer Science & Information Technology
Depositing User: Ms. Juhaida Abd Rahim
Date Deposited: 27 Sep 2023 07:51
Last Modified: 27 Sep 2023 07:51
URI: http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/40782

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