The subject invention relates to facilitating text detection. The
invention employs a boosted classifier and a transductive classifier to
provide accurate and efficient text detection systems and/or methods. The
boosted classifier is trained through features generated from a set of
training connected components and labels. The boosted classifier utilizes
the features to classify the training connected components, wherein
inferred labels are conveyed to a transductive classifier, which
generates additional properties. The initial set of features and the
properties are utilized to train the transductive classifier. Upon
training, the system and/or methods can be utilized to detect text in
data under text detection, wherein unlabeled data is received, and
connected components are extracted therefrom and utilized to generate
corresponding feature vectors, which are employed to classify the
connected components using the initial boosted classifier. Inferred
labels are utilized to generate properties, which are utilized along with
the initial feature vectors to classify each connected component using
the transductive classifier.