Visual Saliency Models for Text Detection in Real World.

This paper evaluates the degree of saliency of texts in natural scenes using visual saliency models. A large scale scene image database with pixel level ground truth is created for this purpose. Using this scene image database and five state-of-the-art models, visual saliency maps that represent the...

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Main Authors: Renwu Gao, Seiichi Uchida, Asif Shahab, Faisal Shafait, Volkmar Frinken
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4262416?pdf=render