Text, as one of the most influential inventions of humanity, has played an important role in
human life, so far from ancient times. The rich and precise information embodied in text is …

The intelligent analysis of video data is currently in wide demand because a video is a major
source of sensory data in our lives. Text is a prominent and direct source of information in …

Scene text detection and scene segmentation are meaningful tasks in the computer vision
field. Could the semantic scene segmentation assist scene text detection in any degree? For …

There are a variety of grand challenges for text extraction in scene videos by robots and
users, eg, heterogeneous background, varied text, nonuniform illumination, arbitrary motion …

Text detection and communication in the automotive context has attracted the attention of
researchers only over the past few years. Detecting text in the automotive context, as …

Text present in image provides important information for automatic annotation, indexing and
retrieval. Therefore, its extraction is a well known research area in computer vision …

The authors address, in this study, a new adaptive binarisation method on images captured
by smartphones. This work is part of an application for visually impaired people assistance …

Nowadays, LED dot matrix has increasingly role in many application areas to showing
messages and contents. These messages contain various characters to display the …

Natural scene images are more susceptible to skew deformation as compared to document
text which makes skew correction an indispensable step in scene text extraction. This work …

Text location from natural scene images is very challenging due to variations in text fonts,
color, alignment and illumination. In order to deal with this problem, a novel method of scene …