method: Megvii-Image++2016-01-30

Authors: Jia Yu, Xinyu Zhou, Cong Yao, Jianan Wu, Chi Zhang, Shuchang Zhou

Description: A deep neural network based system that consists of two main parts: text detection and word recognition. The detection part is accomplished by a FCN which directly extracts text regions from original images. The recognition part is another neural network that performs whole word recognition.