Cursive-Text: A Comprehensive Dataset for End-to-End Urdu Text Recognition in Natural Scene Images.

ABSTRACT: Reading text in natural scene images is an active research area in the fields of computer vision and pattern recognition as text detection, text recognition and script identification are required. In this data article, a comprehensive dataset for Urdu text detection and recognition in natural scene images is presented and analysed. To develop the dataset, more than 2500 natural scene images were captured using a digital camera and a built-in mobile phone camera. Three separate datasets for isolated Urdu character images, cropped word images and end-to-end text spotting were developed. The isolated Urdu character and cropped word images dataset contain a much larger number of samples than existing Arabic natural scene text datasets. The Urdu text spotting dataset contains images with Urdu,

SUBMITTER: Chandio AA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7262424 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature