Combining multi-scale character recognition and linguistic knowledge for natural scene text OCR

Proceedings - 10th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, DAS 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 120-124

  Elagouni, Khaoula ^a   Garcia, Christophe ^b   Mamalet, Franck ^a   Sébillot, Pascale ^c  

^a ORANGE LABS   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c CAMPUS DE BEAULIEU   (France)

Author keywords

convolutional neural networks; language model; multi scale character recognition; scene text recognition

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER SEGMENTATION; CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK; GRAPH MODEL; LANGUAGE MODEL; LINGUISTIC KNOWLEDGE; MULTISCALES; NATURAL SCENES; NEURAL CLASSIFICATION; ROBUST RECOGNITION; SCENE TEXT; STATE-OF-THE-ART APPROACH; TEXT IMAGES; VISUAL PATTERN RECOGNITION;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

TEXT PROCESSING;

EID: 84862088599     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DAS.2012.26     Document Type: Conference Paper

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