The history of text can be traced back over thousands of years. Rich and precise semantic
information carried by text is important in a wide range of vision-based application …

Automatic recognition of component markings and reference designators on a printed circuit
board (PCB) is an important and challenging step for a high-accuracy automatic Bill of …

Text editing in the scene aims to replace the source text with target text while maintaining the
original text style and background, which involves text detection, style transfer and image …

Text detection in natural scene images for content analysis is an interesting task. The
research community has seen some great developments for English/Mandarin text …

Text helps to convey the intended message to users very accurately. Detecting text from
natural scene images for quadrilateral-type and polygon-type datasets is the primary scope …

Mobile captured receipts OCR (MC-OCR) recognizes text from structured and semi-
structured receipts and invoices captured by mobile devices. This process plays a critical …

Text information extraction from natural scene images is a rising area of research. Since text
in natural scene images generally carries valuable details, detecting and recognizing scene …

Detecting the presence of text in street scene images is a very crucial task for many
applications and its complexity may vary from script to script due to the unique …

In Chap. 4, the methods based on Delaunay triangulation and histogram-oriented moments
for text detection in video are discussed. The methods explored temporal information for …

Different high-level robotics tasks require the robot to manipulate or interact with objects that
are in an unexplored part of the environment or not already in its field of view. Although …