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Real-time scene text localization and recognition

Neumann et al., 2012

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6194601372988143092
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Neumann L
Matas J
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2012 IEEE conference on computer vision and pattern recognition

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An end-to-end real-time scene text localization and recognition method is presented. The real-time performance is achieved by posing the character detection problem as an efficient sequential selection from the set of Extremal Regions (ERs). The ER detector is robust to …
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