Title
COCO-Text: Dataset and Benchmark for Text Detection and Recognition in Natural Images.
Abstract
This paper describes the COCO-Text dataset. In recent years large-scale datasets like SUN and Imagenet drove the advancement of scene understanding and object recognition. The goal of COCO-Text is to advance state-of-the-art in text detection and recognition in natural images. The dataset is based on the MS COCO dataset, which contains images of complex everyday scenes. The images were not collected with text in mind and thus contain a broad variety of text instances. To reflect the diversity of text in natural scenes, we annotate text with (a) location in terms of a bounding box, (b) fine-grained classification into machine printed text and handwritten text, (c) classification into legible and illegible text, (d) script of the text and (e) transcriptions of legible text. The dataset contains over 173k text annotations in over 63k images. We provide a statistical analysis of the accuracy of our annotations. In addition, we present an analysis of three leading state-of-the-art photo Optical Character Recognition (OCR) approaches on our dataset. While scene text detection and recognition enjoys strong advances in recent years, we identify significant shortcomings motivating future work.
Year
Venue
Field
2016
arXiv: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Transcription (linguistics),Noisy text analytics,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Optical character recognition,Artificial intelligence,Text detection,Minimum bounding box,Cognitive neuroscience of visual object recognition,Statistical analysis
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1601.07140
28
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.87
12
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Andreas Veit1504.85
Tomas Matera2280.87
LukᚠNeumann31705.49
Jiri Matas433535.85
Serge J. Belongie5125121010.13