Scene text detection and recognition: The deep learning era

S Long, X He, C Yao - International Journal of Computer Vision, 2021 - Springer
With the rise and development of deep learning, computer vision has been tremendously
transformed and reshaped. As an important research area in computer vision, scene text …

A comprehensive and systematic look up into deep learning based object detection techniques: A review

VK Sharma, RN Mir - Computer Science Review, 2020 - Elsevier
Object detection can be regarded as one of the most fundamental and challenging visual
recognition task in computer vision and it has received great attention over the past few …

Fourier contour embedding for arbitrary-shaped text detection

Y Zhu, J Chen, L Liang, Z Kuang… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - openaccess.thecvf.com
One of the main challenges for arbitrary-shaped text detection is to design a good text
instance representation that allows networks to learn diverse text geometry variances. Most …

A survey of deep learning-based object detection

L Jiao, F Zhang, F Liu, S Yang, L Li, Z Feng… - IEEE access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Object detection is one of the most important and challenging branches of computer vision,
which has been widely applied in people's life, such as monitoring security, autonomous …

Character region awareness for text detection

Y Baek, B Lee, D Han, S Yun… - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2019 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Scene text detection methods based on neural networks have emerged recently and have
shown promising results. Previous methods trained with rigid word-level bounding boxes …

Efficient and accurate arbitrary-shaped text detection with pixel aggregation network

W Wang, E Xie, X Song, Y Zang… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Scene text detection, an important step of scene text reading systems, has witnessed rapid
development with convolutional neural networks. Nonetheless, two main challenges still …

Mask textspotter: An end-to-end trainable neural network for spotting text with arbitrary shapes

P Lyu, M Liao, C Yao, W Wu… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Recently, models based on deep neural networks have dominated the fields of scene text
detection and recognition. In this paper, we investigate the problem of scene text spotting …

Textsnake: A flexible representation for detecting text of arbitrary shapes

S Long, J Ruan, W Zhang, X He… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Driven by deep neural networks and large scale datasets, scene text detection methods
have progressed substantially over the past years, continuously refreshing the performance …

Shape robust text detection with progressive scale expansion network

W Wang, E Xie, X Li, W Hou, T Lu… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Scene text detection has witnessed rapid progress especially with the recent development of
convolutional neural networks. However, there still exists two challenges which prevent the …

Textboxes++: A single-shot oriented scene text detector

M Liao, B Shi, X Bai - IEEE transactions on image processing, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Scene text detection is an important step of scene text recognition system and also a
challenging problem. Different from general object detections, the main challenges of scene …