%0 Conference Proceedings %T MSER-based Real-Time Text Detection and Tracking %A Lluis Gomez %A Dimosthenis Karatzas %B 22nd International Conference on Pattern Recognition %D 2014 %@ 1051-4651 %F Lluis Gomez2014 %O DAG; 600.056; 601.158; 601.197; 600.077 %O exported from refbase (http://refbase.cvc.uab.es/show.php?record=2492), last updated on Wed, 28 Oct 2015 15:54:48 +0100 %X We present a hybrid algorithm for detection and tracking of text in natural scenes that goes beyond the fulldetection approaches in terms of time performance optimization.A state-of-the-art scene text detection module based on Maximally Stable Extremal Regions (MSER) is used to detect text asynchronously, while on a separate thread detected text objects are tracked by MSER propagation. The cooperation of these two modules yields real time video processing at high frame rates even on low-resource devices. %U http://refbase.cvc.uab.es/files/GoK2014.pdf %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICPR.2014.536 %P 3110-3115