Object detection in 20 years: A survey

Z Zou, K Chen, Z Shi, Y Guo, J Ye - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Object detection, as of one the most fundamental and challenging problems in computer
vision, has received great attention in recent years. Over the past two decades, we have …

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 …

Conditional text image generation with diffusion models

Y Zhu, Z Li, T Wang, M He… - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Current text recognition systems, including those for handwritten scripts and scene text, have
relied heavily on image synthesis and augmentation, since it is difficult to realize real-world …

Geolayoutlm: Geometric pre-training for visual information extraction

C Luo, C Cheng, Q Zheng… - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Visual information extraction (VIE) plays an important role in Document Intelligence.
Generally, it is divided into two tasks: semantic entity recognition (SER) and relation …

Aster: An attentional scene text recognizer with flexible rectification

B Shi, M Yang, X Wang, P Lyu, C Yao… - IEEE transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A challenging aspect of scene text recognition is to handle text with distortions or irregular
layout. In particular, perspective text and curved text are common in natural scenes and are …

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 …

East: an efficient and accurate scene text detector

X Zhou, C Yao, H Wen, Y Wang… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Previous approaches for scene text detection have already achieved promising
performances across various benchmarks. However, they usually fall short when dealing …

Moran: A multi-object rectified attention network for scene text recognition

C Luo, L **, Z Sun - Pattern Recognition, 2019 - Elsevier
Irregular text is widely used. However, it is considerably difficult to recognize because of its
various shapes and distorted patterns. In this paper, we thus propose a multi-object rectified …

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 …