Authors: Xu-Cheng Yin,Wei-Yi Pei,Chun Yang,Yu-hang Zheng,Qi Gao,Guang-Hai Ji,Xu-Wang Yin

Description: Text detection is conducted with USTB_TexStar for multi-orientation scene images [1,2]. Then a word recogniton system (a CNN recognizer [3] and a Character Case sensitive identifier) is performed.

[1] Xu-Cheng Yin, Xuwang Yin, Kaizhu Huang, and Hong-Wei Hao, “Robust text detection in natural scene images”, IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 36(5): 970-983, 2014.
[2] Xu-Cheng Yin, Wei-Yi Pei, Xuwang Yin, Jun Zhang, and Hong-Wei Hao, “Multi-orientation scene text detection with adaptive clustering,” IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), preprint, 2015.
[3] M. Jaderberg, K. Simonyan, A. Vedaldi, and A. Zisserman, "Reading Text in the Wild with Convolutional Neural Networks", arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.1842, 2014.