First International Workshop on Robust Reading (IWRR2014)

 

November 2, 2014

Venue: SR4, Stephen Riady Centre at U Town, NUS (map)

 

At a glance

 

TIME EVENT Room
9:00am - 9:05am Opening SR4
9:05am - 9:30am Introductory Talk SR4
9:30am - 10:30am Keynote 1 SR4
10:30am - 11:00am Coffee Break  
11:00am - 12:30pm Oral Session 1 SR4
12:30pm - 2:00pm Lunch  
2:00pm - 3:30pm Oral Session 2 SR4
3:30pm - 4:00pm Coffee Break  
4:00pm - 5:00pm Keynote 2 SR4
5:00pm - 5:25pm Panel Discussion SR4
5:25pm - 5:30pm Closing SR4

 

 

Details

 

TIME PAPER PDF LINK
9:00am - 9:05am Opening  
9:05am - 9:30am Introduction to Robust Reading Problem
Organizers
 
9:30am - 10:30am

Keynote 1

Text Reading in the Wild - How to make it useful?
Lukáš Neumann & Prof. Jiří Matas (Czech Technical University in Prague)

 
10:30am - 11:00am Coffee Break  
11:00am - 11:20am Oral 01-1: Text Localization based on Fast Feature Pyramids and Multi-resolution Maximally Stable Extremal Regions, Alessandro Zamberletti, Lucia Noce, Ignazio Gallo w8-o1.pdf
11:20am - 11:40am Oral 01-2: 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, Kunio Osada w8-o2.pdf
11:40am - 12:00pm Oral 01-3: Robust Text Segmentation in Low Quality Images via Adaptive Stroke Width Estimation and Stroke based Superpixel Grouping Anna Zhu, Guoyou Wang, Yangbo Dong w8-o3.pdf
12:00am - 12:20pm Oral 01-4: Efficient character skew rectification in scene text images, Michal Busta, Tomas Drtina, David Helekal, Lukas Neumann, Jiri Matas w8-o4.pdf
12:30pm - 2:00pm Lunch  
2:00pm - 2:20pm Oral 02-1: Performance Improvement of Dot-Matrix Character Recognition by Variation Model based Learning, Koji Endo, Wataru Ohyama, Tetsushi Wakabayashi, Fumitaka Kimura w8-o5.pdf
2:20pm - 2:40pm

Oral 02-2: Scene text recognition: No Country for Old Men? Lluis Gomez, Dimosthenis Karatzas

w8-o6.pdf
2:40pm - 3:00pm

Oral 02-3: A Machine Learning Approach to Hypothesis Decoding in Scene Text Recognition, Jindrich Libovicky, Lukas Neumann, Pavel Pecina, Jiri Matas

w8-o7.pdf
3:00pm - 3:20pm Oral 02-4: Perspective Scene Text Recognition With Feature Compression and Ranking, Yu Zhou, Shuang Liu, Yongzheng Zhang, Yipeng Wang, Weiyao Lin w8-o8.pdf
3:30pm - 4:00pm

Coffee Break

 
4:00pm - 5:00pm

Keynote 2

PhotoOCR: Reading Text in Uncontrolled Conditions
Dr. Alessandro Bissacco (Google Inc.)

 
5:00pm - 5:25pm Panel Discussion  
5:25pm - 5:30pm Closing