Duplicate open page removal from video stream of book flipping

Abstract

Book flipping scanning refers to the process of recording a book while the user performs the flipping action of its pages. In recent years it has gained much attention as it reduces the workload of book digitization significantly. It is a challenging task because flipping at random speed and direction causes difficulties to identify distinct open page images (OPI) which represent each page of the book. In this paper, we propose a fast technique for removing duplicate open pages introduced in the video stream due to erroneous flipping. We present an algorithm that exploits cues from edge information of flipping pages. The nature of the cues extracted from the region of interest (ROI) of the frame, determines the flipping or an open state of a page whereas temporal position a flipping page determines the direction of the flipping. Combining these information we decide whether an open page image is a duplicate or not. Experiments are performed on video documents recorded using a standard resolution camera to validate the duplicate open page removal algorithm and we have obtained 95% accuracy.