Scene Text Localization & Recognition Resources

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Tags: [STL] (Scene Text Localization), [TR] (Text Recognition)

[STL] (Scene Text Localization) Detect text area from scene input image

[TR] (Text Recognition) Recognize text content

Last update: Sep.17 2023

1. Papers & Code

Overview

[2020-arxiv] Text Detection and Recognition in the Wild: A Review paper
[2020-arxiv] Text Recognition in the Wild: A Survey paper
[2020-IJCV] Scene Text Detection and Recognition: The Deep Learning Era paper
[2019-ICCV] What Is Wrong With Scene Text Recognition Model Comparisons? Dataset and Model Analysis paper code
[2016-TIP] Text Detection Tracking and Recognition in Video: A Comprehensive Survey paper
[2015-PAMI] Text Detection and Recognition in Imagery: A Survey paper
[2014-Front.Comput.Sci] Scene Text Detection and Recognition: Recent Advances and Future Trends paper

University of Oxford

[2020-ECCV][STL][TR] Adaptive Text Recognition through Visual Matching paper code
[2018-BMVC][TR] Inductive Visual Localisation: Factorised Training for Superior Generalisation paper
[2016-IJCV][STL][TR] Reading Text in the Wild with Convolutional Neural Networks paper demo homepage
[2016-CVPR][STL] Synthetic Data for Text Localisation in Natural Images paper code data
[2015-ICLR][TR] Deep structured output learning for unconstrained text recognition paper
[2015-PhD Thesis][STL] Deep Learning for Text Spotting paper code
[2014-ECCV][STL] Deep Features for Text Spotting paper code model
[2014-NIPS][TR] Synthetic Data and Artificial Neural Networks for Natural Scene Text Recognition paper homepage model

Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology

[2018-arxiv][STL][TR] FOTS: Fast Oriented Text Spotting with a Unified Network paper
[2016-ECCV][STL] CTPN: Detecting Text in Natural Image with Connectionist Text Proposal Network paper code
[2016-CVPR][STL] Accurate Text Localization in Natural Image with Cascaded Convolutional Text Network paper
[2016-AAAI][STL] Reading Scene Text in Deep Convolutional Sequences paper
[2016-TIP][STL] Text-Attentional Convolutional Neural Networks for Scene Text Detection paper
[2016-TIP][STL] Text-Attentional Convolutional Neural Network for Scene Text Detection paper
[2014-ECCV][STL] Robust Scene Text Detection with Convolution Neural Network Induced MSER Trees paper

South China University of Technology

[2021-IJCV][STL] Exploring the Capacity of an Orderless Box Discretization Network for Multi-orientation Scene Text Detection paper code
[2021-CVPR][STL] Fourier Contour Embedding for Arbitrary-Shaped Text Detection paper
[2021-CVPR][TR][STL] Implicit Feature Alignment: Learn To Convert Text Recognizer to Text Spotter paper code
[2020-CVPR][TR] Learn to Augment: Joint Data Augmentation and Network Optimization for Text Recognition paper code
[2020-AAAI][STL][TR] Decoupled Attention Network for Text Recognition paper
[2020-CVPR][STL][TR] ABCNet: Real-time Scene Text Spotting with Adaptive Bezier-Curve Network paper code
[2020-IJCV][TR] Separating Content from Style Using Adversarial Learning for Recognizing Text in the Wild paper
[2019-Pattern Recognition][TR] A Multi-Object Rectified Attention Network for Scene Text Recognition paper code
[2019-CVPR][TR] Aggregation Cross-Entropy for Sequence Recognition paper code
[2019-arxiv][STL] Exploring the Capacity of an Orderless Box Discretization Network for Multi-orientation Scene Text Detection paper code code
[2019-CVPR][STL] Tightness-Aware Evaluation Protocol for Scene Text Detection paper
[2018-AAAI][STL] Feature Enhancement Network: A Refined Scene Text Detector paper
[2017-arXiv][STL] Detecting Curve Text in the Wild: New Dataset and New Solution paper
[2020-arxiv][TR] Adaptive Embedding Gate for Attention-Based Scene Text Recognition paper
[2017-PAMI][TR] Learning Spatial-Semantic Context with Fully Convolutional Recurrent Network for Online Handwritten Chinese Text Recognition paper
[2017-CVPR][STL] Deep Matching Prior Network: Toward Tighter Multi-oriented Text Detection paper
[2016-arXiv][STL] DeepText:A Unified Framework for Text Proposal Generation and Text Detection in Natural Images paper
[2016-IEEE Transactions on Multimedia][STL] A Convolutional Neural Network Based Chinese Text Detection Algorithm Via Text Structure Modeling paper

Fudan University

[2022-AAAI][TR] Text Gestalt: Stroke-Aware Scene Text Image Super-resolution paper code
[2023-MM][TR] Chinese Character Recognition with Augmented Character Profile Matching paper code
[2023-ICCV][TR] Chinese Text Recognition with A Pre-Trained CLIP-Like Model Through Image-IDS Aligning paper code
[2023-arxiv][STL][TR] Weakly-Supervised Text Instance Segmentation paper code
[2023-IJCAI][TR] Orientation-Independent Chinese Text Recognition in Scene Images paper
[2023-IJCAI][TR] TPS++: Attention-Enhanced Thin-Plate Spline for Scene Text Recognition paper code
[2023-IJCAI][STL][TR] Towards Accurate Video Text Spotting with Text-wise Semantic Reasoning paper code
[2022-MM][TR] Chinese Character Recognition with Augmented Character Profile Matching paper code
[2022-WACV][TR] Robustly Recognizing Irregular Scene Text by Rectifying Principle Irregularities paper
[2021-IJCAI][TR] Zero-Shot Chinese Character Recognition with Stroke-Level Decomposition paper code
[2022-IJCAI][TR] C3-STISR: Scene Text Image Super-resolution with Triple Clues paper [code][https://github.com/zhaominyiz/C3-STISR]
[2021-CVPR][TR] Scene Text Telescope: Text-Focused Scene Image Super-Resolution paper
[2020-arxiv][TR] Text Recognition in Real Scenarios with a Few Labeled Samples paper
[2018-CVPR][TR] Edit Probability for Scene Text Recognition paper
[2017-arXiv][STL] Arbitrary-Oriented Scene Text Detection via Rotation Proposals paper code

Huazhong University of Science and Technology

[2021-CVPR][STL][TR] Scene Text Retrieval via Joint Text Detection and Similarity Learning paper code
[2021-CVPR][STL] MOST: A Multi-Oriented Scene Text Detector With Localization Refinement paper
[2020-ECCV][TR] AutoSTR: Efficient Backbone Search for Scene Text Recognition paper
[2020-AAAI][STL][TR] All You Need Is Boundary: Toward Arbitrary-Shaped Text Spotting paper
[2020-AAAI][STL] Real-time Scene Text Detection with Differentiable Binarization paper code
[2020-ECCV][STL][TR] Mask TextSpotter V3: Segmentation Proposal Network for Robust Scene Text Spotting paper code
[2019-PAMI][TR] ASTER: An Attentional Scene Text Recognizer with Flexible Rectification paper code
[2019-AAAI][TR] Scene Text Recognition from Two-Dimensional Perspective paper
[2019-PAMI][STL] Gliding vertex on the horizontal bounding box for multi-oriented object detection paper code
[2019-ICCV][TR] Symmetry-Constrained Rectification Network for Scene Text Recognition paper
[2018-arxiv][STL] TextField: Learning A Deep Direction Field for Irregular Scene Text Detection paper