ICDAR 2013 robust reading competition

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1484-1493

  Karatzas, Dimosthenis ^a   Shafait, Faisal ^b   Uchida, Seiichi ^c   Iwamura, Masakazu ^d   Bigorda, Lluis Gomez I ^a   Mestre, Sergi Robles ^a   Mas, Joan ^a   Mota, David Fernandez ^a   Almazan, Jon Almazan ^a   De Las Heras, Lluis Pere ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Osaka City University   (Japan)

Author keywords

robust reading; scene text; text extraction; text localization; text recognition; text segmentation; video

Indexed keywords

ROBUST READING; SCENE TEXT; TEXT EXTRACTION; TEXT LOCALIZATION; TEXT RECOGNITION; TEXT SEGMENTATION; VIDEO;

TEXT PROCESSING;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 84889582459     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2013.221     Document Type: Conference Paper

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