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Using text-spotting to query the world

Posner, Ingmar, Corke, P., & Newman, Paul (2010) Using text-spotting to query the world. In Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 2010, IEEE, Taipei International Convention Center, Taipei, pp. 3181-3186.

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    Abstract

    The world we live in is well labeled for the benefit
    of humans but to date robots have made little use of this
    resource. In this paper we describe a system that allows robots to read and interpret visible text and use it to understand the content of the scene. We use a generative probabilistic model that explains spotted text in terms of arbitrary search terms. This allows the robot to understand the underlying function of the scene it is looking at, such as whether it is a bank or a restaurant.
    We describe the text spotting engine at the heart of our
    system that is able to detect and parse wild text in images, and the generative model, and present results from images obtained with a robot in a busy city setting.

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    ID Code: 41591
    Item Type: Conference Paper
    Keywords: Cityscape, Human Readable Text, Natural Science Images, Optical Character Recognition, Probabilistic Error Correction, Robots, Text Parsing, Text Spotting
    DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2010.5653151
    ISBN: 9781424466764
    Subjects: Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification > INFORMATION AND COMPUTING SCIENCES (080000) > ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND IMAGE PROCESSING (080100) > Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics (080101)
    Divisions: Past > QUT Faculties & Divisions > Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering
    Past > Schools > School of Engineering Systems
    Copyright Owner: Copyright 2010 IEEE
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    Deposited On: 09 May 2011 09:08
    Last Modified: 01 Mar 2012 11:56

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