Strokelets: A Learned Multi-scale Representation for Scene Text Recognition

• Published in: 2014 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition pp. 4042 - 4049
• Main Authors: Yao, Cong, Bai, Xiang, Shi, Baoguang, Liu, Wenyu
• Format: Conference Proceeding Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.06.2014
• Subjects: Character recognition; Clustering algorithms; Computer vision; Conferences; Interference; Noise; Pattern recognition; Prototypes; Recognition; Representations; Robustness; Text recognition; Texts; Training

Driven by the wide range of applications, scene text detection and recognition have become active research topics in computer vision. Though extensively studied, localizing and reading text in uncontrolled environments remain extremely challenging, due to various interference factors. In this paper,...