ICDAR 2011 robust reading competition challenge 2: Reading text in scene images

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1491-1496

  Shahab, Asif ^a   Shafait, Faisal ^a   Dengel, Andreas ^a  

^a GERMAN RESEARCH CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DFKI   (Germany)

Author keywords

natural images; Scene text detection; text recognition

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX IMAGE; DATA SETS; EDIT DISTANCE; EVALUATION MEASURES; IMAGING DEVICE; NATURAL IMAGES; NATURAL SCENE IMAGES; RESEARCH AREAS; SCENE IMAGE; SCENE TEXT; STANDARD METHOD; TEXT LOCALIZATION; TEXT RECOGNITION; WORD RECOGNITION;

CONSUMER PRODUCTS; GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; TEXT PROCESSING;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 82355175563     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2011.296     Document Type: Conference Paper

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