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Enhanced Characterness for Text Detection in the Wild
Text spotting is an interesting research problem as text may appear at any
random place and may occur in various forms. Moreover, ability to detect text
opens the horizons for improving many advanced computer vision problems. In
this paper, we propose a novel language agnostic text detection method
utilizing edge enhanced Maximally Stable Extremal Regions in natural scenes by
defining strong characterness measures. We show that a simple combination of
characterness cues help in rejecting the non text regions. These regions are
further fine-tuned for rejecting the non-textual neighbor regions.
Comprehensive evaluation of the proposed scheme shows that it provides
comparative to better generalization performance to the traditional methods for
this task