An Automatic Timestamp Replanting Algorithm for Panorama Video Surveillance

Timestamp replanting is required when we want to remove timestamps in individual videos and to plant a timestamp into their merged panorama video. This paper presents a preliminary automatic timestamp replanting algorithm for producing panorama surveillance video. Timestamp replanting is a challenge problem because localization, removal, and recognition of timestamp are three difficulty tasks. This paper develops methods to attack the difficulties to finish the tasks. First, it presents a novel localization procedure which first localizes second-digit by using a pixel secondly-periodicity method. And then it localizes timestamp via extracting all digits of timestamp. Second, it adopts a homography-based method to conduct timestamp removal. Third, it presents a digit-sequence recognition method to recognize second-digit and online template matching to recognize the other digits. Experimental results show that the algorithm can accurately localize timestamp in a very low computing cost and that the performances of replanting are visually acceptable.