For the first time, China African Text recognition Technology Innovation Forum was held at Central China University

Jimu Journalist Li Bansong

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Correspondent Gao Xiang

Intern Zeng Jiaqi Bai Rui Bing

On the morning of July 23, the first China -African African Text recognition technology innovation forum was held at Huazhong University of Science and Technology. This forum is based on the development needs of African countries. He invited 9 African countries including Ethiopian Federal Democratic Republic to participate in the festival to participate in the festival in China. Essence

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Text detection and identification, as one of the most promising artificial intelligence technologies at present, have very broad application prospects in the fields of image retrieval, autonomous driving, and medical and health. Text information extraction has important application value in many fields, such as license plate recognition, providing text -to -voice conversion, natural scene text translation, autonomous driving, and automated office. This forum is based on the theme of "innovative cooperation spectrum to win the future together", sharing development opportunities, and promoting the construction of a closer community of China -Africa destiny.

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In the opening ceremony, Ambassador Trumme Toga said: "Talent training is an important aspect of cooperation between China and Ethiopia. Education and talent resource development cooperation is a very important part of the" Belt and Road "initiative." It is Amhara, the second largest Silki specialty department second only to Arabic, which is widely used worldwide. But the text pictures of Amira are a very challenging task. At the meeting, Wang Xing, a student of Ethiopia, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, made a report on "the first Amra scene text detection and identification comprehensive public dataset and preliminary algorithm solution". Faced with high degree of visual similarity in different letters, and current difficulties such as textual data sets such as African text, Wang Xing and his instructor broke through the technical restrictions and made important technical breakthroughs.

It is reported that in the future, Huazhong University of Science and Technology will sign a memorandum of cooperation with the Ethiopian Institute of Artificial Intelligence in Ethiopia, and further establish a cooperation with scientific research machines in Ethiopia, South Sudan, Uganda, and more African countries to strive to make African text automatic recognition technology " The “Belt and Road” played a key role in the interconnection of countries along the Belt and Road.

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