Title
Multiorientation scene text detection via coarse-to-fine supervision-based convolutional networks.
Abstract
Text detection in natural scenes has long been an open challenge and a lot of approaches have been presented, in which the deep learning-based methods have achieved state-of-the-art performance. However, most of them merely use coarse-level supervision information, limiting the detection effectiveness. We propose a deep method utilizing coarse-to-fine supervisions for multiorientation scene text detection. The coarse-to-fine supervisions are generated in three levels: coarse text region (TR), text central line, and fine character shape. With these multiple supervisions, the multiscale feature pyramids and deeply supervised nets are integrated in a unified architecture, and the corresponding convolutional kernels are learned jointly. An effective top-down pipeline is developed to obtain more precise text segmentation regions and their relationship from coarse TR. In addition, the proposed method can handle texts in multiple orientations and languages. Four public datasets, i.e., ICDAR2013, MSRA-TD500, USTB, and street view text dataset, are used to evaluate the performance of our proposed method. The experimental results show that our method achieves the state-of-the-art performance. (C) 2018 SPIE and IS&T
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1117/1.JEI.27.3.033032
JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC IMAGING
Keywords
Field
DocType
scene text detection,multiorientation texts,text segmentation,convolutional neural networks
Computer vision,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Text detection
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
27
3
1017-9909
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
33
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zihan Wang100.34
Zhaoqiang Xia210013.72
Jinye Peng328440.93
Xiaoyi Feng422938.15