Meetei Mayek, Hindi, and English Text Detection from Natural Scene Images Using YOLO

Detecting text in a natural scene image is a crucial computer vision task. This paper presents a multilingual text detection system for detecting Meetei Mayek, Hindi, and English text. The proposed work will serve as a prerequisite for developing a natural scene character recognition system for the mentioned languages. With the evolution of deep learning models, You Only Look Once version 7 (YOLO V7) object detector has been used for detecting text from natural scene images along with language identification. The mean average precision for individual language text detection has been computed. Moreover, the mean average precision with images having more than a single language has also been calculated and the results are appreciable.