Incidental scene text spotting is considered one of the most difficult and valuable challenges in the document analysis community. Most existing methods treat text detection and recognition as separate tasks. In this work, we propose a unified end-to-end trainable Fast Oriented Text Spotting (FOTS) network for simultaneous detection and recognition, sharing computation and visual information am...

We describe our recent work in implementing a word-spotting system based on the ANGIE framework and the effects of varying the nature of the sublexical constraints placed upon the wordspotter’s filler model. ANGIE is a framework for modelling speech where the morphological and phonological substructures of words are jointly characterized by a context-free grammar and are represented in a multi-...

Hereditary white spotting in the mouse may be caused by genes at over a dozen loci. It is thought that some genes achieve their effects by acting through the melanoblasts, and others by acting through the host tissue. The genes mi, Mi, W and s are believed to belong to the former category. But it is not known how the abnormality of the melanoblasts is transformed into the spotting patterns obse...

Sign language spotting is the task of detecting and recognizing the signs in a signed utterance, from a set vocabulary. The difficulty of sign language spotting is that the instances of signs vary in both motion and appearance. Moreover, the signs appear within a continuous gesture stream, interspersed with transitional movements between signs in a vocabulary and non-sign patterns (out-of-vocab...

With the rapid developments of wireless communications, it is highly desired for users to access the network information with spoken dialogue interface via hand-held devices at any time, from anywhere. One possible approach towards this goal is to perform speech feature extraction at the hand-held devices (the clients) and have all other recognition tasks and dialogue functions absorbed by the ...

In this study, we explored the possibility that differences in pigmentation patterns among populations of the fish Poeciliopsis baenschi were associated with the presence or absence of the closely related species P. turneri. If reproductive character displacement is responsible, spotting patterns in these two species should diverge in sympatry, but not allopatry. We predicted that female P. bae...

Two methods of bacteriocin susceptibility typing for Serratia marcescens were compared. A total of 80 epidemiologically unrelated isolates from patients in a single hospital were typed by the cross-streaking method and the mitomycin C-induced (spotting) method. The cross-streaking method was found to be more discriminatory than the spotting method. Using the cross-streaking method, it was possi...

This article concerns the spotting of regular expressions (REGEX) in handwritten documents using a hybrid model. Spotting REGEX in a document image allow to consider further extraction tasks such as document categorization or named entities extraction. Our model combines state of the art BLSTM recurrent neural network for character recognition and segmentation with a HMM model able to spot the ...