Title
RFRN: A recurrent feature refinement network for accurate and efficient scene text detection
Abstract
Scene text detection plays a vital role for scene text understanding, but arbitrary-shaped text detection remains a significant challenge. To extract discriminative features, most recent state-of-the-art methods adopt heavy networks, resulting in parameter redundancy and inference inefficiency. For accurate and efficient scene text detection, in this paper we propose a novel recurrent feature refinement network (RFRN). RFRN, as a recurrent segmentation framework, contains a recurrent path augmentation that refines the previous feature maps as inner states, which not only helps improve the segmentation quality, but also fully facilitates the reuse of parameters and low computational cost. During testing, RFRN discards redundant prediction procedures for efficient inference, and achieves a good balance between speed and accuracy of inference. We conduct experiments on four challenging scene text benchmarks, CTW1500, Total-Text, ICDAR2015 and ICDAR2017-MLT, which include curved texts and multi-oriented texts with complex background. The results show that the proposed RFRN achieves competitive performance on detection accuracy while maintaining computational efficiency.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1016/j.neucom.2020.10.099
Neurocomputing
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Scene text detection,Recurrent segmentation,Feature pyramid network,Feature refinement
Journal
453
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0925-2312
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Guanyu Deng100.34
Yue Ming2458.83
Jing-Hao Xue31510.05