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Aliased Text Dataset

Description:

This dataset contains a set of bitmap images containing aliased text (2 colors) in the context of CANTATA project, developed by BARCO. Number of images in the archive (1250 available in the archive).

  

All the images are annotated with Viper XML files. Each ".bmp" image is associated with a ".grid.xml" annotation file with the same name. The annotation takes the form of a grid of 32x32 pixels bounding boxes. The path of the bmp image should be changed in the viper file if you want to open it in viper-gt.

The text is represented in different colors: black on white, white on black, random dark color on white, white on random dark color, black on random light color, random light color on white, random dark color on random light color and, finally random light color on random dark color.Fonts used (from 7 to 42 points):
  • Helvetica
  • Optima
  • AvantGarde
  • Times
  • Palatino
  • Courier
  • Century

Comments:

The dataset and the ground truth were generated by Quentin Besnehard and Cédric Marchessoux.

Copyrights:

The fonts used are available under the GNU General Public License version 2.0.  These fonts are free clones of the original fonts provided by URW typeface foundry. Requested citation acknowledgment about the data set and the ground truth: Courtesy of ITEA2 funded Cantata project

Contact:

Quentin Besnehard, quentin.besnehard@barco.com; Cédric Marchessoux, cedric.marchessoux@barco.com.

Files

AliasedText.zip (images + ground truth - 88 MB)
 

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