IWRR2014
First International Workshop on
Robust Reading
(In conjunction with ACCV2014)

November 2, 2014

National University of Singapore, Singapore

Workshop Program

  9:00-  9:05 Opening
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  9:05-  9:30

Introductory Talk

Introduction to Robust Reading Problem
Organizers
  9:30-10:30

Keynote 1

Text Reading in the Wild - How to make it useful?
Lukáš Neumann & Prof. Jiří Matas (Czech Technical University in Prague)
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10:30-11:00 Morning Break
11:00-12:30 Oral Session 1
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Oral Session 2
15:30-16:00 Afternoon Break
16:00-17:00

Keynote 2

PhotoOCR: Reading Text in Uncontrolled Conditions
Dr. Alessandro Bissacco (Google Inc.)
17:00-17:25 Panel Discussion
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17:25-17:30 Closing

Oral Session 1 (11:00-12:30)

O1-1
11:00-11:20

Text Localization Based on Fast Feature Pyramids and Multi-Resolution Maximally Stable Extremal Regions

Alessandro Zamberletti, Lucia Noce and Ignazio Gallo (University of Insubria)

O1-2
11:20-11:40

A Hybrid Approach to Detect Texts in Natural Scenes by Integration of a Connected-Component Method and a Sliding-Window Method

Yojiro Tonouchi, Kaoru Suzuki (Toshiba Corporation) and Kunio Osada (Toshiba Solutions Corporation)

O1-3
11:40-12:00

Robust Text Segmentation in Low Quality Images via Adaptive Stroke Width Estimation and Stroke based Superpixel Grouping

Anna Zhu, Guoyou Wang and Yangbo Dong (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)

O1-4
12:00-12:20

Efficient Character Skew Rectification in Scene Text Images

Michal Busta, Tomas Drtina, David Helekal, Lukas Neumann and Jiri Matas (Czech Technical University in Prague)

Oral Session 2 (14:00-15:30)

O2-1
14:00-14:20

Performance Improvement of Dot-Matrix Character Recognition by Variation Model Based Learning

Koji Endo, Wataru Ohyama, Tetsushi Wakabayashi and Fumitaka Kimura (Mie University)

O2-2
14:20-14:40

Scene Text Recognition: No Country for Old Men?

Lluis Gomez and Dimosthenis Karatzas (Computer Vision Center)

O2-3
14:40-15:00

A Machine Learning Approach to Hypothesis Decoding in Scene Text Recognition

Jindrich Libovicky (Charles University in Prague), Lukas Neumann (Czech Technical University in Prague), Pavel Pecina (Charles University in Prague) and Jiri Matas (Czech Technical University in Prague)

O2-4
15:00-15:20

Perspective Scene Text Recognition with Feature Compression and Ranking

Yu Zhou, Shuang Liu, Yongzheng Zhang, Yipeng Wang (Chinese Academy of Sciences) and Weiyao Lin (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)