Using text-spotting to query the world

IEEE/RSJ 2010 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2010 - Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 3181-3186

  Posner, Ingmar ^a   Corke, Peter ^b   Newman, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE AREA; ERROR-CORRECTION SCHEMES; GENERATIVE MODEL; HUMAN-READABLE TEXT; NATURAL SCENE IMAGES; NON-TRIVIAL; RELIABLE DETECTION; SEARCH TERMS; SEMANTIC INFORMATION;

ERROR DETECTION; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 78651477245     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2010.5653151     Document Type: Conference Paper

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