Scene text is text that appears in an image captured by a camera in an outdoor environment.
The detection and recognition of scene text from camera captured images are computer vision tasks which became important after smart phones with good cameras became ubiquitous. The text in scene images varies in shape, font, colour and position. The recognition of scene text is further complicated sometimes by non-uniform illumination and focus.
To improve scene text recognition, the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR) conducts a robust reading competition once in two years. The competition was held in 2003, 2005[1][2][3] and during every ICDAR conference.[4][5][6] International association for pattern recognition (IAPR) has created a list of datasets as Reading systems.[7]
- ^ Lucas, S.M. (2005). "ICDAR 2005 text locating competition results". S. M. Lucas. Text Locating Competition Results. In Proc. 8th ICDAR, pages 80–85, 2005. pp. 80–84 Vol. 1. doi:10.1109/ICDAR.2005.231. ISBN 978-0-7695-2420-7. S2CID 1842569.
- ^ ICDAR 2005 Competitions. http://www.iapr-tc11.org/mediawiki/index.php/ICDAR_2005_Robust_Reading_Competitions.
- ^ Lucas, Simon M.; Panaretos, Alex; Sosa, Luis; Tang, Anthony; Wong, Shirley; Young, Robert; Ashida, Kazuki; Nagai, Hiroki; Okamoto, Masayuki; Yamamoto, Hiroaki; Miyao, Hidetoshi; Zhu, Junmin; Ou, Wuwen; Wolf, Christian; Jolion, Jean-Michel; Todoran, Leon; Worring, Marcel; Lin, Xiaofan (2005). "S. M. Lucas. ICDAR 2003 Robust Reading Competitions: Entries, Results, and Future Directions. IJDAR, 7(2):105–122, June 2005". International Journal of Document Analysis and Recognition. 7 (2–3): 105–122. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.104.1667. doi:10.1007/s10032-004-0134-3. S2CID 2250003.
- ^ ICDAR 2013. http://www.icdar2013.org.
- ^ ICDAR 2017. http://u-pat.org/ICDAR2017/
- ^ ICDAR 2011 Robust Reading Competition. http://www.cvc.uab.es/icdar2011competition/.
- ^ IAPR TC11 Reading Systems-Datasets List. http://www.iapr-tc11.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Datasets.