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Anti-aliased Text Dataset

Description:

This dataset contains a set of bitmap images containing anti-aliased text in the context of CANTATA project, developed by BARCO. Number of images in the archive (2400 available in the archive).

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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.The annotation takes the form of a grid of 32x32 pixels bounding boxes.

Comments:

The dataset and the ground truth were generated by Quentin Besnehard and Arnaud Joubel. To obtain the complete dataset, send an e-mail to the contact person.

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 dataset and the ground truth: Courtesy of ITEA2 funded Cantata project

Contact:

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

Files

AntiAliasedText.zip (images + ground truth - 68 MB)
 

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