As a prerequisite step of scene text reading, scene text detection is known as a challenging
task due to natural scene text diversity and variability. Most existing methods either adopt …

We present a new hybrid document layout analysis approach to simultaneously detecting
graphical page objects, group text-lines into text regions according to reading order, and …

Existing scene text detectors generally focus on accurately detecting single-level (ie word-
level line-level or paragraph-level) text entities without exploring the relationships among …

Document structure analysis (aka document layout analysis) is crucial for understanding the
physical layout and logical structure of documents, with applications in information retrieval …

Abstract Contextual Text Block Detection (CTBD) is the task of identifying coherent text
blocks in complex natural scenes. Previous methodologies have treated CTBD as either a …

The safety and reliability of urban intelligent transportation systems (ITS) largely depend on
accurate and sufficient scene perception, especially detecting and understanding text …

This paper discusses the challenges of optical character recognition (OCR) on natural
scenes, which is harder than OCR on documents due to the wild content and various image …

Text spotting has seen tremendous progress in recent years yielding performant techniques
which can extract text at the character, word or line level. However, extracting blocks of text …