Arbitrary-shaped scene text detection is a challenging task due to the variety of text changes
in font, size, color, and orientation. Most existing regression based methods resort to regress …

Contour based scene text detection methods have rapidly developed recently, but still suffer
from inaccurate front-end contour initialization, multi-stage error accumulation, or deficient …

Recently, regression-based methods, which predict parameter curves for localizing texts, are
popular in scene text detection. However, these methods struggle to balance concise …