Text detection and character recognition in scene images with unsupervised feature learning

Proceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 440-445

  Coates, Adam ^a   Carpenter, Blake ^a   Case, Carl ^a   Satheesh, Sanjeev ^a   Suresh, Bipin ^a   Wang, Tao ^a   Wu, David J ^a   Ng, Andrew Y ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

character recognition; feature learning; photo OCR; Robust reading

Indexed keywords

END-TO-END SYSTEMS; FEATURE LEARNING; FEATURE REPRESENTATION; KEY COMPONENT; ROBUST READING; SCENE IMAGE; TEXT DETECTION; UNLABELED DATA;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; PHOTOGRAPHY;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 82355160847     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2011.95     Document Type: Conference Paper

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