Deep learning methods for scene text detection

• Main Author: Liu, Zichuan
• Other Authors: Goh Wang Ling
• Format: Thesis-Doctor of Philosophy
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2020
• Subjects: Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering; Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Computer applications
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/142533
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is a common method to convert typed, hand-written or printed text from documents and scene photos into digital format, which can be edited, searched, stored and displayed. It acts as a uniform information entry for text related higher-level applications, such as c...