Cute80-Dataset is a public dataset available to be used for Text Detection in Images which used in ESWA 2014 journal.
All thanks to the original authors and creaters of dataset A. Risnumawan, P. Shivakumara, C.S. Chan and C.L. Tan. Citation: A. Risnumawan, P. Shivakumara, C.S. Chan and C.L. Tan (2014) “A Robust Arbitrary Text Detection System for Natural Scene Images“, Expert Systems with Applications, vol. 41(18), pp. 8027-8048.
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