Natural Scene Text Detection and Segmentation Using Phase-Based Regions and Character Retrieval

Table 3

Character candidate generation results on the ICDAR2013 dataset.

Method	Recall-similarity (%)	Candidate regions
ER (G, H, S, and Cb) [19]	98.6	6651
MC-MR MSER [28]	98.0	2799
MSER (gray)	92.9	754
Sung et al. (gray + Cr + Cb) [17]	87.7	401
Saric (gray) [20]	89.9	77
Wu et al. (RGB) [8]	90.0	1226
Proposed method (gray)	91.0	220