Reading text from photographs is a challenging problem that has received a significant amount of attention. Two key components of most systems are (i) text detection from images and (ii) text recognition, and many methods have been introduced to design better feature representations and models for both. Scene text recognition has gained significant attention from the computer vision community i...

The pervasiveness of the Internet and social media have enabled rapid anonymous spread Hate Speech content on microblogging platforms such as Twitter. Current EU US legislation against hateful language, in conjunction with large amount data produced these has led to automatic tools being a necessary component detection task pipeline. In this study, we examine performance several, diverse text r...

In spite of significant research efforts, the existing scene text detection methods fall short challenges and requirements posed in real-life applications. natural scenes, segments exhibit a wide range shape complexities, scale, font property variations, they appear mostly incidental. Furthermore, computational requirement detector is an important factor for real-time operation. To address afor...

The subtitles on video are very useful for us to understand video's contents. If we can extract text information from the subtitles, it will be very helpful to establish a database of video’s content that includes annotations and indexes. To extract text from videos, most text detection and extraction methods use the text color, background contrast, and texture information. However, the limitat...