ICDAR 2011 Robust Reading Competition, Challenge 1: Reading Text in Born-Digital Images (Web and Email)

Dimosthenis Karatzas (1) , Sergi Robles Mestre (2) , Joan Mas (2) , Farshad Nourbakhsh (2) , Partha Pratim Roy (2, 3)

1 CVC
2 CVC - Computer Vision Center (Centre de visio per computador)
3 LIFAT - Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale et Appliquée de Tours

This paper presents the results of the first Challenge of ICDAR 2011 Robust Reading Competition. Challenge 1 is focused on the extraction of text from born-digital images, specifically from images found in Web pages and emails. The challenge was organized in terms of three tasks that look at different stages of the process: text localization, text segmentation and word recognition. In this paper we present the results of the challenge for all three tasks, and make an open call for continuous participation outside the context of ICDAR 2011.

Domaines: Traitement des images [eess.IV]; Traitement du texte et du document; Vision par ordinateur et reconnaissance de formes [cs.CV]

Dimosthenis Karatzas, Sergi Robles Mestre, Joan Mas, Farshad Nourbakhsh, Partha Pratim Roy. ICDAR 2011 Robust Reading Competition, Challenge 1: Reading Text in Born-Digital Images (Web and Email). Eleventh International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Sep 2011, Pékin, China. ⟨hal-01026471⟩