ICDAR2015 competition on Text Image Super-Resolution

This paper presents the first international competition on Text Image Super-Resolution (SR) and the ICDAR2015-TextSR dataset. We describe the core of the competition: interest, dataset generation and evaluation procedure, together with participating teams and their respective methods. The obtained results, along with baseline image upscaling schemes and state-of-the-art SR approaches are reported and commented. The main conclusion of this competition is that SR systems may improve OCR performances by up to 16.55 points in accuracy compared with bicubic interpolation for the proposed low resolution images.

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