ALIF: A dataset for Arabic embedded text recognition in TV broadcast

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

Volumn 2015-November, Issue , 2015, Pages 1221-1225

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

^a ORANGE LABS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

Arabic; dataset; Embedded text recognition; video OCR

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; TELEVISION BROADCASTING;

ARABIC; ARABIC TEXT RECOGNITION; BACKGROUND COMPLEXITY; DATASET; EVALUATION STUDY; PUBLIC DATASET; TEXT RECOGNITION; VIDEO OCR;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 84962556250     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2015.7333958     Document Type: Conference Paper

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