PhotoOCR: Reading text in uncontrolled conditions

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 785-792

  Bissacco, Alessandro ^a   Cummins, Mark ^a   Netzer, Yuval ^a   Neven, Hartmut ^a  

^a GOOGLE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

deep learning; OCR; scene text; text recognition

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

BENCHMARK DATASETS; CHARACTER CLASSIFICATION; DEEP LEARNING; DISTRIBUTED LANGUAGES; IMAGING CONDITIONS; MEAN PROCESSING TIME; SCENE TEXT; TEXT RECOGNITION;

DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 84898778744     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCV.2013.102     Document Type: Conference Paper

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