Typographical Features for Scene Text Recognition
Published 1 August 2010
Jerod Weinman
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A semi-Markov modelintegrating character segmentation and recognition with a bigram model of character widths is augmented to improve recognition on low-resolution images of signs containing text in many fonts.
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Scene text images feature an abundance of font style variety but a dearth of data in any given query. Recognition methods must be robust to this variety or adapt to the query data's characteristics. To achieve this, we augment a semi-Markov model-integrating character segmentation and recognition-with a bigram model of character widths. Softly promoting segmentations that exhibit font metrics consistent with those learned from examples, we use the limited information available while avoiding error-prone direct estimates and hard constraints. Incorporating character width bigrams in this fashion improves recognition on low-resolution images of signs containing text in many fonts.
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