method: TextProposals + DictNet2016-03-02

Authors: Lluis Gomez-Bigorda, Dimosthenis Karatzas

Description: Uses TextProposals [1] (a Text-specific Selective Search Algorithm for Word Spotting in the Wild) in combination with the DictNet [2] CNN.

Source code of the complete end-to-end system is available at: https://github.com/lluisgomez/TextProposals

[1] Lluis Gomez-Bigorda and Dimosthenis Karatzas "TextProposals: a Text-specific Selective Search Algorithm for Word Spotting in the Wild", arXiv:1604.02619 2016.

[2] M. Jaderberg, K. Simonyan, A. Vedaldi, A. Zisserman
"Synthetic Data and Artificial Neural Networks for Natural Scene Text Recognition", Workshop on Deep Learning, NIPS, 2014.