Object Proposals for Text Extraction in the Wild
- intro: ICDAR 2015
- arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.02317
- github: https://github.com/lluisgomez/TextProposals
Text-Attentional Convolutional Neural Networks for Scene Text Detection
Accurate Text Localization in Natural Image with Cascaded Convolutional Text Network
Synthetic Data for Text Localisation in Natural Images
- intro: CVPR 2016
- project page: http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/data/scenetext/
- arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/1604.06646
- paper: http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/data/scenetext/gupta16.pdf
- github: https://github.com/ankush-me/SynthText
Scene Text Detection via Holistic, Multi-Channel Prediction
Detecting Text in Natural Image with Connectionist Text Proposal Network
- intro: ECCV 2016
- arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/1609.03605
- github(Caffe): https://github.com/tianzhi0549/CTPN
- github(CUDA8.0 support): https://github.com/qingswu/CTPN
- demo: http://textdet.com/
- github(Tensorflow): https://github.com/eragonruan/text-detection-ctpn
TextBoxes: A Fast Text Detector with a Single Deep Neural Network
- intro: AAAI 2017
- arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.06779
- github(Caffe): https://github.com/MhLiao/TextBoxes
- github: https://github.com/xiaodiu2010/TextBoxes-TensorFlow
TextBoxes++: A Single-Shot Oriented Scene Text Detector
- intro: TIP 2018. University of Science and Technology(HUST)
- arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.02765
- github(official, Caffe): https://github.com/MhLiao/TextBoxes_plusplus
Deep Matching Prior Network: Toward Tighter Multi-oriented Text Detection
- intro: CVPR 2017
- intro: F-measure 70.64%, outperforming the existing state-of-the-art method with F-measure 63.76%
- arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.01425
Detecting Oriented Text in Natural Images by Linking Segments
- intro: CVPR 2017
- arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.06520
- github(Tensorflow): https://github.com/dengdan/seglink
Deep Direct Regression for Multi-Oriented Scene Text Detection
Cascaded Segmentation-Detection Networks for Word-Level Text Spotting
https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.00834
Text-Detection-using-py-faster-rcnn-framework
WordFence: Text Detection in Natural Images with Border Awareness
- intro: ICIP 2017
- arcxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.05483
SSD-text detection: Text Detector
- intro: A modified SSD model for text detection
- github: https://github.com/oyxhust/ssd-text_detection
R2CNN: Rotational Region CNN for Orientation Robust Scene Text Detection
- intro: Samsung R&D Institute China
- arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.09579
R-PHOC: Segmentation-Free Word Spotting using CNN
- intro: ICDAR 2017
- arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.01294
Towards End-to-end Text Spotting with Convolutional Recurrent Neural Networks
https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.03985
EAST: An Efficient and Accurate Scene Text Detector
- intro: CVPR 2017. Megvii
- arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.03155
- paper: http://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_cvpr_2017/papers/Zhou_EAST_An_Efficient_CVPR_2017_paper.pdf
- github(Tensorflow): https://github.com/argman/EAST
Deep Scene Text Detection with Connected Component Proposals
- intro: Amap Vision Lab, Alibaba Group
- arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.05133
Single Shot Text Detector with Regional Attention
- intro: ICCV 2017
- arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.00138
- github: https://github.com/BestSonny/SSTD
- code: http://sstd.whuang.org
Fused Text Segmentation Networks for Multi-oriented Scene Text Detection
https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.03272
Deep Residual Text Detection Network for Scene Text
- intro: IAPR International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR) 2017. Samsung R&D Institute of China, Beijing
- arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.04147
Feature Enhancement Network: A Refined Scene Text Detector
- intro: AAAI 2018
- arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.04249
ArbiText: Arbitrary-Oriented Text Detection in Unconstrained Scene
https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.11249
Detecting Curve Text in the Wild: New Dataset and New Solution
FOTS: Fast Oriented Text Spotting with a Unified Network
https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.01671
PixelLink: Detecting Scene Text via Instance Segmentation
- intro: AAAI 2018
- arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.01315
PixelLink: Detecting Scene Text via Instance Segmentation
- intro: AAAI 2018. Zhejiang University & Chinese Academy of Sciences
- arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.01315
Sliding Line Point Regression for Shape Robust Scene Text Detection
https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.09969
Single Shot TextSpotter with Explicit Alignment and Attention
- intro: CVPR 2018
- arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03474
Rotation-Sensitive Regression for Oriented Scene Text Detection
- intro: CVPR 2018
- arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.05265
Detecting Multi-Oriented Text with Corner-based Region Proposals
- arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.02690
- github: https://github.com/xhzdeng/crpn
An Anchor-Free Region Proposal Network for Faster R-CNN based Text Detection Approaches
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.09003
IncepText: A New Inception-Text Module with Deformable PSROI Pooling for Multi-Oriented Scene Text Detection
- intro: IJCAI 2018. Alibaba Group
- arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.01167
Boosting up Scene Text Detectors with Guided CNN
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.04132
Shape Robust Text Detection with Progressive Scale Expansion Network
A Single Shot Text Detector with Scale-adaptive Anchors
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.01884
TextSnake: A Flexible Representation for Detecting Text of Arbitrary Shapes
- intro: ECCV 2018
- arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.01544
Mask TextSpotter: An End-to-End Trainable Neural Network for Spotting Text with Arbitrary Shapes
- intro: ECCV 2018. Huazhong University of Science and Technology & Megvii (Face++) Technology
- arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.02242
Accurate Scene Text Detection through Border Semantics Awareness and Bootstrapping
- intro: ECCV 2018
- arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.03547
TextContourNet: a Flexible and Effective Framework for Improving Scene Text Detection Architecture with a Multi-task Cascade