Title
FAST: Facilitated and Accurate Scene Text Proposals through FCN Guided Pruning
Abstract
•We train a Fully Convolutional Network (FCN) for text prediction in scene images and fuse it with a text proposal method.•Significantly higher recall rates than SoA text localization pipelines and better quality regions are obtained.•The resulting pipeline reduces the number of proposals resulting to a 4 ×  speed up compared with the baseline.•Our proposed method yields top performance when integrated in an end-to-end pipeline.•Analysis and results on standard datasets COCO-Text and ICDAR-Challenge 4 are reported.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1016/j.patrec.2017.08.030
Pattern Recognition Letters
Keywords
Field
DocType
Text proposals,Fully convolutional networks,Scene text images
Signal processing,Noisy text analytics,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Software,Artificial intelligence,Recall,Text recognition,Machine learning,Speedup,Pruning
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
119
0167-8655
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
32
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dena Bazazian182.89
Raul Gomez252.12
Anguelos Nicolaou310410.14
Lluís Gómez4938.74
Dimosthenis Karatzas540638.13
Andrew D. Bagdanov686152.78
Andrew D. Bagdanov786152.78