Inscriptions visual recognition. A comparison of state-of-the-art object recognition approaches

In this paper, we consider the task of recognizing inscriptions in images such as photos taken using mobile devices. Given a set of 17,155 photos related to 14,560 inscriptions, we used a ð'~-NearestNeighbor approach in order to perform the recognition. The contribution of this work is in comparing state-of-the-art visual object recognition techniques in this specific context. The experimental results conducted show that Vector of Locally Aggregated Descriptors obtained aggregating Scale Invariant Feature Transform descriptors is the best choice for this task.