Linguistic landscape research focuses on relationships between written languages in public
spaces and the sociodemographic structure of a city. While a great deal of work has been …

The identification of ships plays a crucial role in security and managing vessel traffic for ports
and onshore facilities. Existing video monitoring systems help visually identify a vessel …

Text detection system for natural images is a very challenging task in Computer Vision.
Image acquisition introduces distortion in terms of perspective, blurring, illumination, and …

In this paper, we present the Touch Text exTractor (Touch TT), an interactive text
segmentation tool for the extraction of scene text from camera‐based images. Touch TT …

In this study, we propose a method for the recognition and retrieval of a flower species in the
natural environment based on a multi-layer technique, and we also suggest novel …

Text in scene images can provide useful and vital information for content-based image
analysis. Therefore, localization of text in images is an important task. In this paper, we …

With an increasing number of kids diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD),
countries face a shortage of resources for efficient delivery of autism support. Social media …

We offer in this article, a method for text extraction in images issued from city scenes. This
method is used in the French iTowns project (iTowns ANR project, 2008) to automatically …

Scene text is widely observed in our daily life and has many important multimedia
applications. Unlike document text, scene text usually exhibits large variations in font and …

With the increasing market of cheap cameras, natural scene text has to be handled in an
efficient way. Some works deal with text detection in the image while more recent ones point …