Deep Learning Approach: A New Trend in Text Detection in Natural Images

Abstract

With the advancement of digital technology, use of various multimedia devices such as portable camera and mobile camera has grown at rapid pace. Now days, these portable devices are used to capture various scene images which usually contain text. The text part in the scene images sometimes contain useful information which needs to be recognized for various applications. But, text detection in natural scene images is very challenging process due to factors such as uneven illumination, arbitrary layouts, perspective distortion and warped text. In order to overcome these challenges, study is being done by various researchers to detect text from the natural scene images. In this paper, author explains the various text detection techniques which have already been previously used for text detection in natural images. Apart from that, author has also described the new era of technology i.e. Deep Learning based techniques for text detection in natural scene images.