Hypothesis preservation approach to scene text recognition with weighted finite-state transducer

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 359-363

  Yamazoe, Takafumi ^a   Etoh, Minoru ^a   Yoshimura, Takeshi ^a   Tsujino, Kousuke ^a  

^a NTT DOCOMO   (Japan)

Author keywords

character recognition; Kanji character; natural scene; scene text; text extraction; WFST

Indexed keywords

KANJI CHARACTERS; NATURAL SCENES; SCENE TEXT; TEXT EXTRACTION; WFST;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; SCALES (WEIGHING INSTRUMENTS); TEXT PROCESSING;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 82355182556     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2011.80     Document Type: Conference Paper

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