IWRR2014 - First International Workshop on Robust Reading

Workshop Program

9:00- 9:05	Opening Slide PDF (2.0MB)
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) Slide PDF (5.3MB)
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 Slide PDF (1.3MB)
17:25-17:30	Closing

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)

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)