23.2.2.2.4 Recognize Text from Signs in General Scenes

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Document Analysis. Signs. See also Find Text in Video Scenes. For traffic sign issues: See also Road Signs, Traffic Signs, Objects along the Road, Inspections.

Word Lens,
2010. Quest Visual. Text recognition
WWW Version. Vendor, OCR. Vendor, Sign Detection. More than OCR. Recognize, then translate the text, e.g. from a sign in the image. iPhone app store.

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Automatic detection of signs with affine transformation,
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Character Recognition. Find text in video, then translate the text (i.e. Chinese character signs). BibRef

Zhang, J.[Jing], Chen, X.L.[Xi-Lin], Hannernan, A., Yang, J.[Jie], Waibel, A.,
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Park, J.[Jonghyun], Lee, G.S.[Guee-Sang], Kim, E.[Euichul], Lim, J.[Junsik], Kim, S.[Soohyung], Yang, H.[Hyungjeong], Lee, M.[Myunghun], Hwang, S.[Seongtaek],
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Bouman, K.L., Abdollahian, G., Boutin, M., Delp, E.J.,
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Ichimura, N.[Naoyuki],
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Chapter on OCR, Document Analysis and Character Recognition Systems continues in
Find Text in Video Scenes .


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