<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Detecting and recognizing text in natural scenes (e.g. streets, restaurants, shops, etc.) could be a part of an artificial intelligence system, especially with regard to the speech synthesis system. Properly detected text is passed to a recognition stage and then to the speech synthesis system, which translates text to speech. Research is carried out for the ‘Toucan Eye’ project — embedded device with artificial intelligence system able to help people with impaired sight. Due to constrained resources and abilities of embedded devices, criteria for text spotting must be met. First criterion is quality of detected and recognized regions with text and the second is time spent on both operations. Particular stages of the system and chosen methods of text spotting under aforementioned constraints are presented.</p></abstract>

Detecting and recognizing text in natural scenes (e.g. streets, restaurants, shops, etc.) could be a part of an artificial intelligence system, especially with regard to the speech synthesis system. Properly detected text is passed to a recognition stage and then to the speech synthesis system, which translates text to speech. Research is carried out for the ‘Toucan Eye’ project — embedded device with artificial intelligence system able to help people with impaired sight. Due to constrained resources and abilities of embedded devices, criteria for text spotting must be met. First criterion is quality of detected and recognized regions with text and the second is time spent on both operations. Particular stages of the system and chosen methods of text spotting under aforementioned constraints are presented.

Text Spotting in the Wild with Embedded Device

Institute of Naval Weapon and Computer Science

Maritime Technical Journal

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Detecting and recognizing text in natural scenes (e.g. streets, restaurants, shops, etc.) could be a part of an artificial intelligence system, especially with...

Text Spotting in the Wild with Embedded Device

Online veröffentlicht: 28. Juni 2019

Seitenbereich: 81 - 95

Eingereicht: 03. Aug. 2018

Akzeptiert: 27. Juni 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sjpna-2019-0014

Schlüsselwörter
text spotting, assisting persons with impaired sight, Toucan Eye

© 2019 Artur Zacniewski et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Text Spotting in the Wild with Embedded Device

Online veröffentlicht: 28. Juni 2019

Seitenbereich: 81 - 95

Eingereicht: 03. Aug. 2018

Akzeptiert: 27. Juni 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sjpna-2019-0014

Schlüsselwörtertext spotting, assisting persons with impaired sight, Toucan Eye

© 2019 Artur Zacniewski et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Schlüsselwörter
text spotting, assisting persons with impaired sight, Toucan Eye