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	Author	Bojana Gajic; Eduard Vazquez; Ramon Baldrich
	Title	Evaluation of Deep Image Descriptors for Texture Retrieval			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2017	Publication	Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP 2017)	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	251-257
	Keywords	Texture Representation; Texture Retrieval; Convolutional Neural Networks; Psychophysical Evaluation
	Abstract	The increasing complexity learnt in the layers of a Convolutional Neural Network has proven to be of great help for the task of classification. The topic has received great attention in recently published literature. Nonetheless, just a handful of works study low-level representations, commonly associated with lower layers. In this paper, we explore recent findings which conclude, counterintuitively, the last layer of the VGG convolutional network is the best to describe a low-level property such as texture. To shed some light on this issue, we are proposing a psychophysical experiment to evaluate the adequacy of different layers of the VGG network for texture retrieval. Results obtained suggest that, whereas the last convolutional layer is a good choice for a specific task of classification, it might not be the best choice as a texture descriptor, showing a very poor performance on texture retrieval. Intermediate layers show the best performance, showing a good combination of basic filters, as in the primary visual cortex, and also a degree of higher level information to describe more complex textures.
	Address	Porto, Portugal; 27 February – 1 March 2017
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	Area		Expedition		Conference	VISIGRAPP
	Notes	CIC; 600.087			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @			Serial	3710
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	Author	Debora Gil; Oriol Ramos Terrades; Elisa Minchole; Carles Sanchez; Noelia Cubero de Frutos; Marta Diez-Ferrer; Rosa Maria Ortiz; Antoni Rosell
	Title	Classification of Confocal Endomicroscopy Patterns for Diagnosis of Lung Cancer			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2017	Publication	6th Workshop on Clinical Image-based Procedures: Translational Research in Medical Imaging	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	10550	Issue		Pages	151-159
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	Abstract	Confocal Laser Endomicroscopy (CLE) is an emerging imaging technique that allows the in-vivo acquisition of cell patterns of potentially malignant lesions. Such patterns could discriminate between inflammatory and neoplastic lesions and, thus, serve as a first in-vivo biopsy to discard cases that do not actually require a cell biopsy. The goal of this work is to explore whether CLE images obtained during videobronchoscopy contain enough visual information to discriminate between benign and malign peripheral lesions for lung cancer diagnosis. To do so, we have performed a pilot comparative study with 12 patients (6 adenocarcinoma and 6 benign-inflammatory) using 2 different methods for CLE pattern analysis: visual analysis by 3 experts and a novel methodology that uses graph methods to find patterns in pre-trained feature spaces. Our preliminary results indicate that although visual analysis can only achieve a 60.2% of accuracy, the accuracy of the proposed unsupervised image pattern classification raises to 84.6%. We conclude that CLE images visual information allow in-vivo detection of neoplastic lesions and graph structural analysis applied to deep-learning feature spaces can achieve competitive results.
	Address	Quebec; Canada; September 2017
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	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title	LNCS
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	Area		Expedition		Conference	CLIP
	Notes	IAM; 600.096; 600.075; 600.145			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ GRM2017			Serial	2957
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	Author	Pau Riba; Alicia Fornes; Josep Llados
	Title	Towards the Alignment of Handwritten Music Scores			Type	Book Chapter
	Year	2017	Publication	International Workshop on Graphics Recognition. GREC 2015.Graphic Recognition. Current Trends and Challenges	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	9657	Issue		Pages	103-116
	Keywords	Optical Music Recognition; Handwritten Music Scores; Dynamic Time Warping alignment
	Abstract	It is very common to nd dierent versions of the same music work in archives of Opera Theaters. These dierences correspond to modications and annotations from the musicians. From the musicologist point of view, these variations are very interesting and deserve study. This paper explores the alignment of music scores as a tool for automatically detecting the passages that contain such dierences. Given the diculties in the recognition of handwritten music scores, our goal is to align the music scores and at the same time, avoid the recognition of music elements as much as possible. After removing the sta lines, braces and ties, the bar lines are detected. Then, the bar units are described as a whole using the Blurred Shape Model. The bar units alignment is performed by using Dynamic Time Warping. The analysis of the alignment path is used to detect the variations in the music scores. The method has been evaluated on a subset of the CVC-MUSCIMA dataset, showing encouraging results.
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	Publisher		Place of Publication		Editor	Bart Lamiroy; R Dueire Lins
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	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title	LNCS
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN	978-3-319-52158-9	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	DAG; 600.097; 602.006; 600.121			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ RFL2017			Serial	2955
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	Author	Lluis Pere de las Heras; Oriol Ramos Terrades; Josep Llados
	Title	Ontology-Based Understanding of Architectural Drawings			Type	Book Chapter
	Year	2017	Publication	International Workshop on Graphics Recognition. GREC 2015.Graphic Recognition. Current Trends and Challenges	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	9657	Issue		Pages	75-85
	Keywords	Graphics recognition; Floor plan analysi; Domain ontology
	Abstract	In this paper we present a knowledge base of architectural documents aiming at improving existing methods of floor plan classification and understanding. It consists of an ontological definition of the domain and the inclusion of real instances coming from both, automatically interpreted and manually labeled documents. The knowledge base has proven to be an effective tool to structure our knowledge and to easily maintain and upgrade it. Moreover, it is an appropriate means to automatically check the consistency of relational data and a convenient complement of hard-coded knowledge interpretation systems.
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	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title	LNCS
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	Notes	DAG; 600.121			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ HRL2017			Serial	3086
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	Author	Xavier Perez Sala; Fernando De la Torre; Laura Igual; Sergio Escalera; Cecilio Angulo
	Title	Subspace Procrustes Analysis			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2017	Publication	International Journal of Computer Vision	Abbreviated Journal	IJCV
	Volume	121	Issue	3	Pages	327–343
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	Abstract	Procrustes Analysis (PA) has been a popular technique to align and build 2-D statistical models of shapes. Given a set of 2-D shapes PA is applied to remove rigid transformations. Then, a non-rigid 2-D model is computed by modeling (e.g., PCA) the residual. Although PA has been widely used, it has several limitations for modeling 2-D shapes: occluded landmarks and missing data can result in local minima solutions, and there is no guarantee that the 2-D shapes provide a uniform sampling of the 3-D space of rotations for the object. To address previous issues, this paper proposes Subspace PA (SPA). Given several instances of a 3-D object, SPA computes the mean and a 2-D subspace that can simultaneously model all rigid and non-rigid deformations of the 3-D object. We propose a discrete (DSPA) and continuous (CSPA) formulation for SPA, assuming that 3-D samples of an object are provided. DSPA extends the traditional PA, and produces unbiased 2-D models by uniformly sampling different views of the 3-D object. CSPA provides a continuous approach to uniformly sample the space of 3-D rotations, being more efficient in space and time. Experiments using SPA to learn 2-D models of bodies from motion capture data illustrate the benefits of our approach.
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	Notes	MILAB; HuPBA; no proj			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ PTI2017			Serial	2841
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	Author	F. Javier Sanchez; Jorge Bernal; Cristina Sanchez Montes; Cristina Rodriguez de Miguel; Gloria Fernandez Esparrach
	Title	Bright spot regions segmentation and classification for specular highlights detection in colonoscopy videos			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2017	Publication	Machine Vision and Applications	Abbreviated Journal	MVAP
	Volume		Issue		Pages	1-20
	Keywords	Specular highlights; bright spot regions segmentation; region classification; colonoscopy
	Abstract	A novel specular highlights detection method in colonoscopy videos is presented. The method is based on a model of appearance dening specular highlights as bright spots which are highly contrasted with respect to adjacent regions. Our approach proposes two stages; segmentation, and then classication of bright spot regions. The former denes a set of candidate regions obtained through a region growing process with local maxima as initial region seeds. This process creates a tree structure which keeps track, at each growing iteration, of the region frontier contrast; nal regions provided depend on restrictions over contrast value. Non-specular regions are ltered through a classication stage performed by a linear SVM classier using model-based features from each region. We introduce a new validation database with more than 25; 000 regions along with their corresponding pixel-wise annotations. We perform a comparative study against other approaches. Results show that our method is superior to other approaches, with our segmented regions being closer to actual specular regions in the image. Finally, we also present how our methodology can also be used to obtain an accurate prediction of polyp histology.
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	Notes	MV; 600.096; 600.175			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ SBS2017			Serial	2975
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	Author	Simon Jégou; Michal Drozdzal; David Vazquez; Adriana Romero; Yoshua Bengio
	Title	The One Hundred Layers Tiramisu: Fully Convolutional DenseNets for Semantic Segmentation			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2017	Publication	IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages
	Keywords	Semantic Segmentation
	Abstract	State-of-the-art approaches for semantic image segmentation are built on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). The typical segmentation architecture is composed of (a) a downsampling path responsible for extracting coarse semantic features, followed by (b) an upsampling path trained to recover the input image resolution at the output of the model and, optionally, (c) a post-processing module (e.g. Conditional Random Fields) to refine the model predictions. Recently, a new CNN architecture, Densely Connected Convolutional Networks (DenseNets), has shown excellent results on image classification tasks. The idea of DenseNets is based on the observation that if each layer is directly connected to every other layer in a feed-forward fashion then the network will be more accurate and easier to train. In this paper, we extend DenseNets to deal with the problem of semantic segmentation. We achieve state-of-the-art results on urban scene benchmark datasets such as CamVid and Gatech, without any further post-processing module nor pretraining. Moreover, due to smart construction of the model, our approach has much less parameters than currently published best entries for these datasets.
	Address	Honolulu; USA; July 2017
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	Area		Expedition		Conference	CVPRW
	Notes	MILAB; ADAS; 600.076; 600.085; 601.281			Approved	no
	Call Number	ADAS @ adas @ JDV2016			Serial	2866
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	Author	Daniel Hernandez; Antonio Espinosa; David Vazquez; Antonio Lopez; Juan Carlos Moure
	Title	GPU-accelerated real-time stixel computation			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2017	Publication	IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	1054-1062
	Keywords	Autonomous Driving; GPU; Stixel
	Abstract	The Stixel World is a medium-level, compact representation of road scenes that abstracts millions of disparity pixels into hundreds or thousands of stixels. The goal of this work is to implement and evaluate a complete multi-stixel estimation pipeline on an embedded, energyefficient, GPU-accelerated device. This work presents a full GPU-accelerated implementation of stixel estimation that produces reliable results at 26 frames per second (real-time) on the Tegra X1 for disparity images of 1024×440 pixels and stixel widths of 5 pixels, and achieves more than 400 frames per second on a high-end Titan X GPU card.
	Address	Santa Rosa; CA; USA; March 2017
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	Area		Expedition		Conference	WACV
	Notes	ADAS; 600.118			Approved	no
	Call Number	ADAS @ adas @ HEV2017b			Serial	2812
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	Author	Marta Diez-Ferrer; Debora Gil; Elena Carreño; Susana Padrones; Samantha Aso; Vanesa Vicens; Noelia Cubero de Frutos; Rosa Lopez Lisbona; Carles Sanchez; Agnes Borras; Antoni Rosell
	Title	Positive Airway Pressure-Enhanced CT to Improve Virtual Bronchoscopic Navigation			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2017	Publication	European Respiratory Journal	Abbreviated Journal	ERJ
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	Notes	IAM			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ DGC2017b			Serial	3632
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	Author	Ivet Rafegas; Javier Vazquez; Robert Benavente; Maria Vanrell; Susana Alvarez
	Title	Enhancing spatio-chromatic representation with more-than-three color coding for image description			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2017	Publication	Journal of the Optical Society of America A	Abbreviated Journal	JOSA A
	Volume	34	Issue	5	Pages	827-837
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	Abstract	Extraction of spatio-chromatic features from color images is usually performed independently on each color channel. Usual 3D color spaces, such as RGB, present a high inter-channel correlation for natural images. This correlation can be reduced using color-opponent representations, but the spatial structure of regions with small color differences is not fully captured in two generic Red-Green and Blue-Yellow channels. To overcome these problems, we propose a new color coding that is adapted to the specific content of each image. Our proposal is based on two steps: (a) setting the number of channels to the number of distinctive colors we find in each image (avoiding the problem of channel correlation), and (b) building a channel representation that maximizes contrast differences within each color channel (avoiding the problem of low local contrast). We call this approach more-than-three color coding (MTT) to enhance the fact that the number of channels is adapted to the image content. The higher color complexity an image has, the more channels can be used to represent it. Here we select distinctive colors as the most predominant in the image, which we call color pivots, and we build the new color coding using these color pivots as a basis. To evaluate the proposed approach we measure its efficiency in an image categorization task. We show how a generic descriptor improves its performance at the description level when applied on the MTT coding.
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	Notes	CIC; 600.087			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ RVB2017			Serial	2892
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	Author	David Vazquez; Jorge Bernal; F. Javier Sanchez; Gloria Fernandez Esparrach; Antonio Lopez; Adriana Romero; Michal Drozdzal; Aaron Courville
	Title	A Benchmark for Endoluminal Scene Segmentation of Colonoscopy Images			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2017	Publication	Journal of Healthcare Engineering	Abbreviated Journal	JHCE
	Volume		Issue		Pages	2040-2295
	Keywords	Colonoscopy images; Deep Learning; Semantic Segmentation
	Abstract	Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third cause of cancer death world-wide. Currently, the standard approach to reduce CRC-related mortality is to perform regular screening in search for polyps and colonoscopy is the screening tool of choice. The main limitations of this screening procedure are polyp miss- rate and inability to perform visual assessment of polyp malignancy. These drawbacks can be reduced by designing Decision Support Systems (DSS) aim- ing to help clinicians in the different stages of the procedure by providing endoluminal scene segmentation. Thus, in this paper, we introduce an extended benchmark of colonoscopy image segmentation, with the hope of establishing a new strong benchmark for colonoscopy image analysis research. The proposed dataset consists of 4 relevant classes to inspect the endolumninal scene, tar- geting different clinical needs. Together with the dataset and taking advantage of advances in semantic segmentation literature, we provide new baselines by training standard fully convolutional networks (FCN). We perform a compar- ative study to show that FCN significantly outperform, without any further post-processing, prior results in endoluminal scene segmentation, especially with respect to polyp segmentation and localization.
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	Notes	ADAS; MV; 600.075; 600.085; 600.076; 601.281; 600.118			Approved	no
	Call Number	VBS2017b			Serial	2940
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	Author	Pau Riba; Josep Llados; Alicia Fornes; Anjan Dutta
	Title	Large-scale graph indexing using binary embeddings of node contexts for information spotting in document image databases			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2017	Publication	Pattern Recognition Letters	Abbreviated Journal	PRL
	Volume	87	Issue		Pages	203-211
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	Abstract	Graph-based representations are experiencing a growing usage in visual recognition and retrieval due to their representational power in front of classical appearance-based representations. However, retrieving a query graph from a large dataset of graphs implies a high computational complexity. The most important property for a large-scale retrieval is the search time complexity to be sub-linear in the number of database examples. With this aim, in this paper we propose a graph indexation formalism applied to visual retrieval. A binary embedding is defined as hashing keys for graph nodes. Given a database of labeled graphs, graph nodes are complemented with vectors of attributes representing their local context. Then, each attribute vector is converted to a binary code applying a binary-valued hash function. Therefore, graph retrieval is formulated in terms of finding target graphs in the database whose nodes have a small Hamming distance from the query nodes, easily computed with bitwise logical operators. As an application example, we validate the performance of the proposed methods in different real scenarios such as handwritten word spotting in images of historical documents or symbol spotting in architectural floor plans.
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	Notes	DAG; 600.097; 602.006; 603.053; 600.121			Approved	no
	Call Number	RLF2017b			Serial	2873
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	Author	Pau Rodriguez; Guillem Cucurull; Josep M. Gonfaus; Xavier Roca; Jordi Gonzalez
	Title	Age and gender recognition in the wild with deep attention			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2017	Publication	Pattern Recognition	Abbreviated Journal	PR
	Volume	72	Issue		Pages	563-571
	Keywords	Age recognition; Gender recognition; Deep neural networks; Attention mechanisms
	Abstract	Face analysis in images in the wild still pose a challenge for automatic age and gender recognition tasks, mainly due to their high variability in resolution, deformation, and occlusion. Although the performance has highly increased thanks to Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), it is still far from optimal when compared to other image recognition tasks, mainly because of the high sensitiveness of CNNs to facial variations. In this paper, inspired by biology and the recent success of attention mechanisms on visual question answering and fine-grained recognition, we propose a novel feedforward attention mechanism that is able to discover the most informative and reliable parts of a given face for improving age and gender classification. In particular, given a downsampled facial image, the proposed model is trained based on a novel end-to-end learning framework to extract the most discriminative patches from the original high-resolution image. Experimental validation on the standard Adience, Images of Groups, and MORPH II benchmarks show that including attention mechanisms enhances the performance of CNNs in terms of robustness and accuracy.
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	Notes	ISE; 600.098; 602.133; 600.119			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ RCG2017b			Serial	2962
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	Author	Lluis Gomez; Dimosthenis Karatzas
	Title	TextProposals: a Text‐specific Selective Search Algorithm for Word Spotting in the Wild			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2017	Publication	Pattern Recognition	Abbreviated Journal	PR
	Volume	70	Issue		Pages	60-74
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	Abstract	Motivated by the success of powerful while expensive techniques to recognize words in a holistic way (Goel et al., 2013; Almazán et al., 2014; Jaderberg et al., 2016) object proposals techniques emerge as an alternative to the traditional text detectors. In this paper we introduce a novel object proposals method that is specifically designed for text. We rely on a similarity based region grouping algorithm that generates a hierarchy of word hypotheses. Over the nodes of this hierarchy it is possible to apply a holistic word recognition method in an efficient way. Our experiments demonstrate that the presented method is superior in its ability of producing good quality word proposals when compared with class-independent algorithms. We show impressive recall rates with a few thousand proposals in different standard benchmarks, including focused or incidental text datasets, and multi-language scenarios. Moreover, the combination of our object proposals with existing whole-word recognizers (Almazán et al., 2014; Jaderberg et al., 2016) shows competitive performance in end-to-end word spotting, and, in some benchmarks, outperforms previously published results. Concretely, in the challenging ICDAR2015 Incidental Text dataset, we overcome in more than 10% F-score the best-performing method in the last ICDAR Robust Reading Competition (Karatzas, 2015). Source code of the complete end-to-end system is available at https://github.com/lluisgomez/TextProposals.
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	Notes	DAG; 600.084; 601.197; 600.121; 600.129			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ GoK2017			Serial	2886
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	Author	Sounak Dey; Palaiahnakote Shivakumara; K.S. Raghunanda; Umapada Pal; Tong Lu; G. Hemantha Kumar; Chee Seng Chan
	Title	Script independent approach for multi-oriented text detection in scene image			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2017	Publication	Neurocomputing	Abbreviated Journal	NEUCOM
	Volume	242	Issue		Pages	96-112
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	Abstract	Developing a text detection method which is invariant to scripts in natural scene images is a challeng- ing task due to different geometrical structures of various scripts. Besides, multi-oriented of text lines in natural scene images make the problem more challenging. This paper proposes to explore ring radius transform (RRT) for text detection in multi-oriented and multi-script environments. The method finds component regions based on convex hull to generate radius matrices using RRT. It is a fact that RRT pro- vides low radius values for the pixels that are near to edges, constant radius values for the pixels that represent stroke width, and high radius values that represent holes created in background and convex hull because of the regular structures of text components. We apply k -means clustering on the radius matrices to group such spatially coherent regions into individual clusters. Then the proposed method studies the radius values of such cluster components that are close to the centroid and far from the cen- troid to detect text components. Furthermore, we have developed a Bangla dataset (named as ISI-UM dataset) and propose a semi-automatic system for generating its ground truth for text detection of arbi- trary orientations, which can be used by the researchers for text detection and recognition in the future. The ground truth will be released to public. Experimental results on our ISI-UM data and other standard datasets, namely, ICDAR 2013 scene, SVT and MSRA data, show that the proposed method outperforms the existing methods in terms of multi-lingual and multi-oriented text detection ability.
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	Notes	DAG; 600.121			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ DSR2017			Serial	3260
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