{"id":279,"date":"2008-02-19T00:22:43","date_gmt":"2008-02-19T05:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/?p=279"},"modified":"2008-02-19T00:24:05","modified_gmt":"2008-02-19T05:24:05","slug":"read-it-and-beep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/?p=279","title":{"rendered":"Read it and beep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading text is a simple enough task for humans. But unless it&#8217;s cleaned up and served on a plate computers just can&#8217;t do it.<\/p>\n<p>At least they couldn&#8217;t until Mireille Boutin and pals from Purdue University took a shot at the problem.<\/p>\n<p>These guys have built an impressive algorithm that looks for and finds text in real-life cluttered images.<\/p>\n<p>And it works well. In their, albeit limited, tests on\u00a0 65 real-life images, the algorithm correctly identified the text 97 per cent  of the time.<\/p>\n<p>Cars that can read signposts, anyone?<\/p>\n<p>Ref: <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/0801.4807\">arxiv.org\/abs\/0801.4807<\/a>: Automatic Text Area Segmentation in Natural Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading text is a simple enough task for humans. But unless it&#8217;s cleaned up and served on a plate computers just can&#8217;t do it. At least they couldn&#8217;t until Mireille Boutin and pals from Purdue University took a shot at the problem. These guys have built an impressive algorithm that looks for and finds text [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mean-machines","category-sparks-n-thunderbolts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}