Text detection & recognition in the wild for robot localization

Z Raisi, J Zelek - arxiv preprint arxiv:2205.08565, 2022 - arxiv.org
Signage is everywhere and a robot should be able to take advantage of signs to help it
localize (including Visual Place Recognition (VPR)) and map. Robust text detection & …

Occluded text detection and recognition in the wild

Z Raisi, J Zelek - 2022 19th Conference on Robots and Vision …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The performance of existing deep-learning scene text recognition-based methods fails
significantly on occluded text instances or even partially occluded characters in a text due to …

Visual place recognition from end-to-end semantic scene text features

Z Raisi, J Zelek - Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2024 - frontiersin.org
We live in a visual world where text cues are abundant in urban environments. The premise
for our work is for robots to capitalize on these text features for visual place recognition. A …

Text Detection and Recognition for Robot Localization

Z Raisi, J Zelek - Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering …, 2024 - jecei.sru.ac.ir
Background and Objectives: Signage is everywhere, and a robot should be able to take
advantage of signs to help it localize (including Visual Place Recognition (VPR)) and map …