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 …

Text recognition in the wild: A survey

X Chen, L **, Y Zhu, C Luo, T Wang - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2021‏ - dl.acm.org
The history of text can be traced back over thousands of years. Rich and precise semantic
information carried by text is important in a wide range of vision-based application …

What is wrong with scene text recognition model comparisons? dataset and model analysis

J Baek, G Kim, J Lee, S Park, D Han… - Proceedings of the …, 2019‏ - openaccess.thecvf.com
Many new proposals for scene text recognition (STR) models have been introduced in
recent years. While each claim to have pushed the boundary of the technology, a holistic …

Seed: Semantics enhanced encoder-decoder framework for scene text recognition

Z Qiao, Y Zhou, D Yang, Y Zhou… - Proceedings of the …, 2020‏ - openaccess.thecvf.com
Scene text recognition is a hot research topic in computer vision. Recently, many recognition
methods based on the encoder-decoder framework have been proposed, and they can …

Esir: End-to-end scene text recognition via iterative image rectification

F Zhan, S Lu - Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF conference on …, 2019‏ - openaccess.thecvf.com
Automated recognition of texts in scenes has been a research challenge for years, largely
due to the arbitrary text appearance variation in perspective distortion, text line curvature …

Abcnet v2: Adaptive bezier-curve network for real-time end-to-end text spotting

Y Liu, C Shen, L **, T He, P Chen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
End-to-end text-spotting, which aims to integrate detection and recognition in a unified
framework, has attracted increasing attention due to its simplicity of the two complimentary …

Decoupled attention network for text recognition

T Wang, Y Zhu, L **, C Luo, X Chen, Y Wu… - Proceedings of the …, 2020‏ - ojs.aaai.org
Text recognition has attracted considerable research interests because of its various
applications. The cutting-edge text recognition methods are based on attention mechanisms …

Show, attend and read: A simple and strong baseline for irregular text recognition

H Li, P Wang, C Shen, G Zhang - … of the AAAI conference on artificial …, 2019‏ - ojs.aaai.org
Recognizing irregular text in natural scene images is challenging due to the large variance
in text appearance, such as curvature, orientation and distortion. Most existing approaches …

Scene text telescope: Text-focused scene image super-resolution

J Chen, B Li, X Xue - … of the IEEE/CVF Conference on …, 2021‏ - openaccess.thecvf.com
Image super-resolution, which is often regarded as a preprocessing procedure of scene text
recognition, aims to recover the realistic features from a low-resolution text image. It has …

Robustscanner: Dynamically enhancing positional clues for robust text recognition

X Yue, Z Kuang, C Lin, H Sun, W Zhang - European conference on …, 2020‏ - Springer
The attention-based encoder-decoder framework has recently achieved impressive results
for scene text recognition, and many variants have emerged with improvements in …