Hi all,
This week tea talk is going to be given by Ouais Alsharif :
Title:End-to-End Text Recognition with Hybrid HMM Maxout Models
Abstract:
The problem of detecting and recognizing text in natural scenes has
proved to be more challenging than its counterpart in documents, with
most of the previous work focusing on a single part of the problem. In
this work, we propose new solutions to the character and word detection
problems and then we show how to combine these solutions in an
end-to-end text-recognition system. We do so by leveraging the recently
created maxout networks along with hybrid HMM models that have proven
useful for voice recognition. Using these elements, we build a fast,
tunable and highly accurate recognition system that beats state of the
art results on all the sub-problems for both the ICDAR 2003 and SVT
benchmark datasets.
Hope to see many of you there :)
Best,
Razvan