Raw images (photographs) of urban text scenes for camera-based Thai text recognition

Dataset

Description

Raw image collection of city scenes in Thailand with text content. Text is photographed from different angles. Also morning and evening photographs were taken in order to capture different lighting conditions. The material, 309 images, was photographed in 2013 by
Bowornrat Sriman and volunteers.

Example EXIF:
JPEG image data, Exif standard: [TIFF image data, little-endian,
direntries=13, height=2448, manufacturer=SAMSUNG, model=GT-I9300,
orientation=upper-right, xresolution=220, yresolution=228,
resolutionunit=2, software=I9300XXEMA2, datetime=2013:03:14 18:17:49,
GPS-Data, width=3264], baseline, precision 8, 3264x2448, frames 3

The images are not labeled. The orientation (landscape/portrait) is
not corrected yet. This material was used in preparation of the publication:

Sriman, B. & Schomaker, L. (2015).
Object Attention Patches for Text Detection and Recognition in Scene Images using SIFT,
Proceedings of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and
Methods: ICPRAM 2015. De Marsico, M., Figueiredo, M. & Fred, A.
(Eds.). Lisbon, Portugal: SciTePress, Vol. 1, p. 304-311 8 p.

Please cite this publication when using these data.
Date made available14-Mar-2013
PublisherUniversity of Groningen
Date of data production14-Mar-2013
Geographical coverageThailand

Keywords on Datasets

  • camera-based text recognition
  • Thai script
  • urban scene photographs with text in view
  • variation in text angle and daily lighting conditions

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