Deep learning for text spotting

Thesis

This thesis addresses the problem of text spotting - being able to automatically detect and recognise text in natural images. Developing text spotting systems, systems capable of reading and therefore better interpreting the visual world, is a challenging but wildly useful task to solve. We approach this problem by drawing on the successful developments in machine learning, in particular deep learning and neural networks, to present advancements using these data-driven methods.

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Authors: Jaderberg, M; Maxwell Jaderberg

• Publication date: 2015
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: text recognition; text detection; neural networks; deep learning; machine learning; text spotting
• Subjects: Information engineering; Image understanding