Lokesh Nandanwar: Multilingual Text Detection in Video/Images

Data fest Online 2020 Catalyst Workshop track Among the pattern recognition fields, automatic text recognition, known as OCR, has been widely studied for its prominent position in our everyday life. OCR has a long history of research that started from isolated character recognition and evolved to printed/ handwriting document recognition. Over the last decade, interest in this area of research has led to a plethora of text detection and recognition methods. So far, these methods have focused only on some languages such as English, Latin and Chinese. For a language like Hindi, Russian or Arabic which is also used by more than one billion people around the world, the literature is limited to very few studies. This presentation aims to tackle the challenges in Multilingual Text detection in Video/Images with the help of Catalyst framework. Register and get access to the tracks: Join the community: