README.md

Scene Text Detection Resources

Resources of text detection in the wild (also contains some cool recognition related content)

Paper

Overview

• Scene Text Detection and Recognition: Recent Advances and Future Trends
  • Yingying ZHU, Cong YAO, Xiang BAI
  • PDF

ICCV'17

• Deep Direct Regression for Multi-Oriented Scene Text Detection

  • Wenhao He; Xu-Yao Zhang; Fei Yin; Cheng-Lin Liu
  • arxiv

• Towards End-to-end Text Spotting with Convolutional Recurrent Neural Networks

  • H. Li, P. Wang, C. Shen
  • arxiv

CVPR'17

• Detecting Oriented Text in Natural Images by Linking Segments

  • Baoguang Shi,Xiang Bai,Serge Belongie
  • arxiv

• Synthetic Data for Text Localisation in Natural Images

  • PDF
  • GitHub
  • Intro: synthesize text on image using program for pre-train or data augmentation

AAAI'17

• TextBoxes: A Fast Text Detector with a Single Deep Neural Network
  • Minghui Liao, Baoguang Shi, Xiang Bai, Xinggang Wang, Wenyu Liu
  • github
  • arxiv

IJCV'17

• Reading Text in the Wild with Convolutional Neural Networks
  • Max Jaderberg · Karen Simonyan · Andrea Vedaldi · Andrew Zisserman(VGG团队的工作)
  • GitHub
  • Lab page

CVPR'16

• Multi-Oriented Text Detection with Fully Convolutional Networks

  • Zheng Zhang1∗ Chengquan Zhang1∗ Wei Shen2 Cong Yao1 Wenyu Liu1 Xiang Bai1
  • arxiv

• Robust Scene Text Recognition with Automatic Rectification

  • arxiv
  • Intro: using STN to rectify the characters in image before recognition