Deep learning and recurrent connectionist-based approaches for Arabic text recognition in videos

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

Volumn 2015-November, Issue , 2015, Pages 1026-1030

  Yousfi, Sonia ^a   Berrani, Sid Ahmed ^a   Garcia, Christophe ^b  

^a ORANGE LABS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); NEURAL NETWORKS;

ARABIC TEXT RECOGNITION; AUTO ENCODERS; CHARACTER SEGMENTATION; CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK; DEEP LEARNING; PRE-PROCESSING OPERATIONS; SLIDING WINDOW SCHEMES; VIDEO DATABASE;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 84962518832     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2015.7333917     Document Type: Conference Paper

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