Reading scene text in deep convolutional sequences

30th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2016

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 3501-3508

  He, Pan ^a,b   Huang, Weilin ^a,b   Qiao, Yu ^a   Loy, Chen Change ^a,b   Tang, Xiaoou ^a,b  

^a SHENZHEN INSTITUTES OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CONVOLUTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; NEURAL NETWORKS;

CHARACTER SEGMENTATION; CONTEXT INFORMATION; CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK; IMAGE DISTORTIONS; LONG SHORT TERM MEMORY; RECURRENT MODELS; RECURRENT NETWORKS; STATE OF THE ART;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 85007271139     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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