The Street View Text Dataset

class TR_svt

Implements loading dataset:

“The Street View Text Dataset”: http://vision.ucsd.edu/~kai/svt/

Note

Usage

1. From link above download dataset file: svt.zip.
2. Unpack it.
3. To load data run: ./opencv/build/bin/example_datasets_tr_svt -p=/home/user/path_to_unpacked_folder/svt/svt1/

Benchmark

For this dataset was implemented benchmark with accuracy (mean f1): 0.217

To run benchmark execute:

./opencv/build/bin/example_datasets_tr_svt_benchmark -p=/home/user/path_to_unpacked_folders/svt/svt1/

References:

[Wang11]

Kai Wang, Boris Babenko and Serge Belongie. End-to-end Scene Text Recognition. ICCV, 2011

[Wang10]

Kai Wang and Serge Belongie. Word Spotting in the Wild. ECCV, 2010