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 …

The diversity in length constitutes a significant characteristic of text. Due to the long-tail
distribution of text lengths, most existing methods for scene text recognition (STR) only work …

Abstract Optical Character Recognition (OCR) system serves the need of reading text from
images. Script identification that identifies the language of the text in the image is an …

Computational perception has indeed been dramatically modified and reformed from
handcrafted feature-based techniques to the advent of deep learning. Scene text …

Script identification is an essential step in the text extraction pipeline for multi-lingual
application. This paper presents an effective approach to identify scripts in scene text …

Developing an automatic method for identifying scripts in natural scene text images is of
great importance for improving performance of multilingual OCR. This paper presents a new …

Script identification from complex and colorful images is an integral part of the text
recognition and classification system. Such images may contain twofold challenges:(1) …

Scene text recognition (STR) has been actively studied in recent years, with a wide range of
applications in autonomous driving, image retrieval and much more. However, when a pre …

In multilingual scene text understanding, script identification is an important prerequisite step
for text image recognition. Due to the complex background of text images in natural scenes …

Problems such as complex image backgrounds, low image quality, diverse text forms, and
similar or common character layouts in different script categories in natural scenes pose …