Fwd: Wednesday seminar at Sharif

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From: Soraya Panahi <sor...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 7:56 AM
Subject: Wednesday seminar at Sharif
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Cc: Mehrdad Mirshams Shahshahani <mshahs...@gmail.com>


Hello everybody,

The speaker for this week is Neda Sabagh Pour. She will give a lecture about "End-to-End Scene Text Recognition". You can find the abstract of this lecture in the following.

The seminar will be held at 3 p.m. at the Machine Intelligence and Vision Lab. (MIVLab is marked in the attached map. The lab is located in the underground floor, next to the Sharif newspaper office.)



Bests,
Soraya Panahi

abstract:
In this talk we will focus on the problem of word detection and recognition in natural images. The problem is significantly more challenging than reading text in scanned documents, and has only recently gained attention from the computer vision community. Sub-components of the problem, such as text detection and cropped image word recognition, have

been studied. However, what is unclear is how these recent approaches contribute to solving the end-to-end problem of word recognition.

We fill this gap by constructing and evaluating two systems. The first, representing the de facto state-of-the-art, is a two stage pipeline consisting of text detection followed by a leading OCR engine. The second is a system rooted

in generic object recognition. We show that the latter approach achieves superior performance. While scene text recognition has generally been treated with highly domain-specific methods, our results demonstrate the suitability of applying generic

computer vision methods. Adopting this approach opens the door for real world scene text recognition to benefit from the

rapid advances that have been taking place in object recognition.