CHARACTER RECOGNITION IN NATURAL IMAGES
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This paper presents work towards automatic reading
of text in natural scenes. In particular, our focus
is on the recognition of individual characters in
such scenes. Figures 1, 2 and 3 highlight why this
can be a hard task. Even if the problems of clutter
and text segmentation were to be ignored for the moment,
the following sources of variability still need
to be accounted for: (a) font style and thickness; (b)
background as well as foreground color and texture;
(c) camera position which can introduce geometric