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Tamil to English Translation of Signboard Images from Mobile Phone Camera

K. Jayasakthi Velmurugan, Dr.M.A. Dorairangaswamy

Abstract


I propose a whole architecture for Tamil to English translation of the texts present on JPEG natural scene images taken with a mobile phone camera. I detect the text using the frequency information of the DCT coefficients, binarize it using a clustering-based algorithm, recognize it by the use of an OCR algorithm and translate and phonetically transcribe it from Tamil to English. The result is a useful, simple, affordable and robust system that can handle problems like lighting distortion, out of focus, low resolution and foreground-background color variations in a very short amount of processing time, which makes its implementation very attractive on portable devices.


Keywords


Text Detection, Text Binarization, Recognition, Signboard Image.

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