ICDAR 2015 Incidental Scene Text.

1000 training + 500 test images captured with wearable cameras. Industry standard for scene text detection.

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§ 01 · Leaderboard

Best published scores.

188 results indexed across 8 metrics. Shaded row marks current SOTA; ties broken by submission date.

Primary: f1 · higher is better
All metrics: accuracy, f-measure, f-measure-generic-lexicon, f-measure-strong-lexicon, f-measure-weak-lexicon, fps, precision, recall

accuracy

2 rows

#	Model	Org	Submitted	Paper / code	accuracy
01	PGNet-A	—	Apr 2021	PGNet: Real-time Arbitrarily-Shaped Text Spotting with P… · code	62.30
02	PGNet-E	—	—	—	57.40

f-measure

43 rows

#	Model	Org	Submitted	Paper / code	f-measure
01	TextFuseNet (ResNeXt-101)	—	May 2020	papers-with-code · code	92.23
02	CharNet H-88 (multi-scale)	—	Oct 2019	Convolutional Character Networks · code	91.55
03	CharNet H-88 (single-scale)	—	Oct 2019	Convolutional Character Networks · code	90.97
04	CharNet H-50 (multi-scale)	—	Oct 2019	Convolutional Character Networks · code	90.16
05	SBD	—	Dec 2019	Exploring the Capacity of an Orderless Box Discretizatio… · code	90.10
06	CharNet H-57 (multi-scale)	—	Oct 2019	Convolutional Character Networks · code	90.06
07	FreeReal+DBNetOSS	SJTU	Sep 2024	arxiv	90
08	TESTR	—	Apr 2022	github-readme	90
09	FOTS MS	—	Jan 2018	FOTS: Fast Oriented Text Spotting with a Unified Network · code	89.84
10	CharNet H-50 (single-scale)	—	Oct 2019	Convolutional Character Networks · code	89.70
11	CharNet H-57 (single-scale)	—	Oct 2019	Convolutional Character Networks · code	89.66
12	PMTD*	—	Mar 2019	Pyramid Mask Text Detector · code	89.33
13	GNNets	—	Sep 2019	Geometry Normalization Networks for Accurate Scene Text … · code	88.52
14	FOTS	—	Jan 2018	FOTS: Fast Oriented Text Spotting with a Unified Network · code	87.99
15	DBNet++ (ResNet-50) (1152)	—	Feb 2022	Real-Time Scene Text Detection with Differentiable Binar… · code	87.30
16	DB-ResNet-50 (1152)	—	Nov 2019	Real-time Scene Text Detection with Differentiable Binar… · code	87.30
17	SPCNET	—	Nov 2018	Scene Text Detection with Supervised Pyramid Context Net… · code	87.20
18	FAST-B-1280	—	Nov 2021	FAST: Faster Arbitrarily-Shaped Text Detector with Minim… · code	87.10
19	SAST	—	Aug 2019	A Single-Shot Arbitrarily-Shaped Text Detector based on … · code	86.91
20	CRAFT	—	Apr 2019	Character Region Awareness for Text Detection · code	86.90
21	EK-Net++OSS	Research	Jan 2024	journal-paper	86.72
22	FAST-B-896	—	Nov 2021	FAST: Faster Arbitrarily-Shaped Text Detector with Minim… · code	86.30
23	Mask TextSpotter	—	Jul 2018	Mask TextSpotter: An End-to-End Trainable Neural Network… · code	86
24	EK-NetOSS	Zhu et al.	Jan 2024	arxiv	85.72
25	PSENet-1s	—	Mar 2019	Shape Robust Text Detection with Progressive Scale Expan… · code	85.70
26	FAST-B-736	—	Nov 2021	FAST: Faster Arbitrarily-Shaped Text Detector with Minim… · code	84.70
27	SLPR	—	Jan 2018	PixelLink: Detecting Scene Text via Instance Segmentatio… · code	84.50
28	Corner-based Region Proposals	—	Apr 2018	Detecting Multi-Oriented Text with Corner-based Region P… · code	84.50
29	Corner Localization (multi-scale)	—	Feb 2018	Multi-Oriented Scene Text Detection via Corner Localizat… · code	84.30
30	FTSN + MNMS	—	Sep 2017	Fused Text Segmentation Networks for Multi-oriented Scen…	84.10
31	PixelLink+VGG16 2s	—	Jul 2018	TextSnake: A Flexible Representation for Detecting Text … · code	83.70
32	DBNet++ (ResNet-18) (736)	—	Feb 2022	Real-Time Scene Text Detection with Differentiable Binar… · code	83.10
33	PAN	—	Apr 2017	EAST: An Efficient and Accurate Scene Text Detector · code	82.90
34	FAST-S-736	—	Nov 2021	FAST: Faster Arbitrarily-Shaped Text Detector with Minim… · code	82.90
35	Quad_MS	—	Jan 2018	TextBoxes++: A Single-Shot Oriented Scene Text Detector · code	82.90
36	TextSnake	—	Aug 2019	Efficient and Accurate Arbitrary-Shaped Text Detection w… · code	82.60
37	FAST-T-736	—	Nov 2021	FAST: Faster Arbitrarily-Shaped Text Detector with Minim… · code	81.70
38	EAST + PVANET2x RBOX (multi-scale)	—	Sep 2017	Single Shot Text Detector with Regional Attention · code	80.70
39	EAST + PVANET2x RBOX (single-scale)	—	Apr 2017	EAST: An Efficient and Accurate Scene Text Detector · code	78.20
40	WordSup (VGG16-synth-icdar)	—	Mar 2017	Detecting Oriented Text in Natural Images by Linking Seg… · code	78.20
41	SSTD	—	Aug 2017	WordSup: Exploiting Word Annotations for Character based…	77
42	SegLink	—	Apr 2016	Multi-Oriented Text Detection with Fully Convolutional N… · code	75
43	MCLAB_FCN	—	Apr 2021	PGNet: Real-time Arbitrarily-Shaped Text Spotting with P… · code	53.60

f-measure-generic-lexicon

18 rows

#	Model	Org	Submitted	Paper / code	f-measure-generic-lexicon
01	UNITS	—	Apr 2023	Towards Unified Scene Text Spotting based on Sequence Ge… · code	80.30
02	A3S	—	Feb 2023	A3S: Adversarial learning of semantic representations fo…	79.60
03	DeepSolo (ViTAEv2-S, TextOCR)	—	Nov 2022	DeepSolo: Let Transformer Decoder with Explicit Points S… · code	79.50
04	DeepSolo (ResNet-50, TextOCR)	—	Nov 2022	DeepSolo: Let Transformer Decoder with Explicit Points S… · code	79.10
05	DeepSolo (ResNet-50)	—	Nov 2022	DeepSolo: Let Transformer Decoder with Explicit Points S… · code	76.90
06	GLASS	—	Aug 2022	GLASS: Global to Local Attention for Scene-Text Spotting · code	76.30
07	SRTS	—	Jul 2022	Single Shot Self-Reliant Scene Text Spotter by Decoupled… · code	74.50
08	MaskTextSpotter v3	—	Jul 2020	Mask TextSpotter v3: Segmentation Proposal Network for R… · code	74.20
09	TESTR	—	Apr 2022	Text Spotting Transformers · code	73.60
10	ABCNet v2	—	May 2021	ABCNet v2: Adaptive Bezier-Curve Network for Real-time E… · code	73
11	SPTS v2	—	Jan 2023	SPTS v2: Single-Point Scene Text Spotting · code	72.60
12	SwinTextSpotter	—	Mar 2022	SwinTextSpotter: Scene Text Spotting via Better Synergy … · code	70.50
13	MANGO	—	Dec 2020	MANGO: A Mask Attention Guided One-Stage Scene Text Spot… · code	67.30
14	SPTS	—	Dec 2021	SPTS: Single-Point Text Spotting · code	65.80
15	TextDragon	—	Oct 2019	papers-with-code	65.20
16	TextPerceptron	—	Feb 2020	Text Perceptron: Towards End-to-End Arbitrary-Shaped Tex… · code	65.10
17	PGNet	—	Apr 2021	PGNet: Real-time Arbitrarily-Shaped Text Spotting with P… · code	63.50
18	FOTS	—	Jan 2018	FOTS: Fast Oriented Text Spotting with a Unified Network · code	62.20

f-measure-strong-lexicon

18 rows

#	Model	Org	Submitted	Paper / code	f-measure-strong-lexicon
01	UNITS	—	Apr 2023	Towards Unified Scene Text Spotting based on Sequence Ge… · code	89
02	DeepSolo (ViTAEv2-S, TextOCR)	—	Nov 2022	DeepSolo: Let Transformer Decoder with Explicit Points S… · code	88.10
03	DeepSolo (ResNet-50, TextOCR)	—	Nov 2022	DeepSolo: Let Transformer Decoder with Explicit Points S… · code	88
04	DeepSolo (ResNet-50)	—	Nov 2022	DeepSolo: Let Transformer Decoder with Explicit Points S… · code	86.80
05	SRTS	—	Jul 2022	Single Shot Self-Reliant Scene Text Spotter by Decoupled… · code	85.60
06	TESTR	—	Apr 2022	Text Spotting Transformers · code	85.20
07	A3S	—	Feb 2023	A3S: Adversarial learning of semantic representations fo…	84.80
08	GLASS	—	Aug 2022	GLASS: Global to Local Attention for Scene-Text Spotting · code	84.70
09	SwinTextSpotter	—	Mar 2022	SwinTextSpotter: Scene Text Spotting via Better Synergy … · code	83.90
10	FOTS	—	Jan 2018	FOTS: Fast Oriented Text Spotting with a Unified Network · code	83.60
11	PGNet	—	Apr 2021	PGNet: Real-time Arbitrarily-Shaped Text Spotting with P… · code	83.30
12	MaskTextSpotter v3	—	Jul 2020	Mask TextSpotter v3: Segmentation Proposal Network for R… · code	83.30
13	ABCNet v2	—	May 2021	ABCNet v2: Adaptive Bezier-Curve Network for Real-time E… · code	82.70
14	TextDragon	—	Oct 2019	papers-with-code	82.50
15	SPTS v2	—	Jan 2023	SPTS v2: Single-Point Scene Text Spotting · code	82.30
16	MANGO	—	Dec 2020	MANGO: A Mask Attention Guided One-Stage Scene Text Spot… · code	81.80
17	TextPerceptron	—	Feb 2020	Text Perceptron: Towards End-to-End Arbitrary-Shaped Tex… · code	80.50
18	SPTS	—	Dec 2021	SPTS: Single-Point Text Spotting · code	77.50

f-measure-weak-lexicon

18 rows

#	Model	Org	Submitted	Paper / code	f-measure-weak-lexicon
01	UNITS	—	Apr 2023	Towards Unified Scene Text Spotting based on Sequence Ge… · code	84.10
02	DeepSolo (ViTAEv2-S, TextOCR)	—	Nov 2022	DeepSolo: Let Transformer Decoder with Explicit Points S… · code	83.90
03	A3S	—	Feb 2023	A3S: Adversarial learning of semantic representations fo…	83.70
04	DeepSolo (ResNet-50, TextOCR)	—	Nov 2022	DeepSolo: Let Transformer Decoder with Explicit Points S… · code	83.50
05	DeepSolo (ResNet-50)	—	Nov 2022	DeepSolo: Let Transformer Decoder with Explicit Points S… · code	81.90
06	SRTS	—	Jul 2022	Single Shot Self-Reliant Scene Text Spotter by Decoupled… · code	81.70
07	GLASS	—	Aug 2022	GLASS: Global to Local Attention for Scene-Text Spotting · code	80.10
08	TESTR	—	Apr 2022	Text Spotting Transformers · code	79.40
09	MANGO	—	Dec 2020	MANGO: A Mask Attention Guided One-Stage Scene Text Spot… · code	78.90
10	ABCNet v2	—	May 2021	ABCNet v2: Adaptive Bezier-Curve Network for Real-time E… · code	78.50
11	PGNet	—	Apr 2021	PGNet: Real-time Arbitrarily-Shaped Text Spotting with P… · code	78.30
12	TextDragon	—	Oct 2019	papers-with-code	78.30
13	MaskTextSpotter v3	—	Jul 2020	Mask TextSpotter v3: Segmentation Proposal Network for R… · code	78.10
14	SPTS v2	—	Jan 2023	SPTS v2: Single-Point Scene Text Spotting · code	77.70
15	SwinTextSpotter	—	Mar 2022	SwinTextSpotter: Scene Text Spotting via Better Synergy … · code	77.30
16	TextPerceptron	—	Feb 2020	Text Perceptron: Towards End-to-End Arbitrary-Shaped Tex… · code	76.60
17	FOTS	—	Jan 2018	FOTS: Fast Oriented Text Spotting with a Unified Network · code	74.50
18	SPTS	—	Dec 2021	SPTS: Single-Point Text Spotting · code	70.20

fps

7 rows

#	Model	Org	Submitted	Paper / code	fps
01	FAST-T-736	—	Nov 2021	FAST: Faster Arbitrarily-Shaped Text Detector with Minim… · code	60.90
02	FAST-S-736	—	Nov 2021	FAST: Faster Arbitrarily-Shaped Text Detector with Minim… · code	53.90
03	DBNet++ (ResNet-18) (736)	—	Feb 2022	Real-Time Scene Text Detection with Differentiable Binar… · code	44
04	FAST-B-736	—	Nov 2021	FAST: Faster Arbitrarily-Shaped Text Detector with Minim… · code	42.70
05	FAST-B-896	—	Nov 2021	FAST: Faster Arbitrarily-Shaped Text Detector with Minim… · code	31.80
06	FAST-B-1280	—	Nov 2021	FAST: Faster Arbitrarily-Shaped Text Detector with Minim… · code	15.70
07	DBNet++ (ResNet-50) (1152)	—	Feb 2022	Real-Time Scene Text Detection with Differentiable Binar… · code	10

precision

41 rows

#	Model	Org	Submitted	Paper / code	precision
01	TextFuseNet (ResNeXt-101)	—	May 2020	papers-with-code · code	93.96
02	CharNet H-88 (multi-scale)	—	Oct 2019	Convolutional Character Networks · code	92.65
03	SBD	—	Dec 2019	Exploring the Capacity of an Orderless Box Discretizatio… · code	92.10
04	EK-NetOSS	Zhu et al.	Jan 2024	arxiv	92
05	FOTS MS	—	Jan 2018	FOTS: Fast Oriented Text Spotting with a Unified Network · code	91.85
06	DB-ResNet-50 (1152)	—	Nov 2019	Real-time Scene Text Detection with Differentiable Binar… · code	91.80
07	Mask TextSpotter	—	Jul 2018	Mask TextSpotter: An End-to-End Trainable Neural Network… · code	91.60
08	CharNet H-57 (multi-scale)	—	Oct 2019	Convolutional Character Networks · code	91.43
09	PMTD*	—	Mar 2019	Pyramid Mask Text Detector · code	91.30
10	CharNet H-50 (single-scale)	—	Oct 2019	Convolutional Character Networks · code	91.15
11	FOTS	—	Jan 2018	FOTS: Fast Oriented Text Spotting with a Unified Network · code	91
12	CharNet H-50 (multi-scale)	—	Oct 2019	Convolutional Character Networks · code	90.90
13	DBNet++ (ResNet-50) (1152)	—	Feb 2022	Real-Time Scene Text Detection with Differentiable Binar… · code	90.90
14	GNNets	—	Sep 2019	Geometry Normalization Networks for Accurate Scene Text … · code	90.41
15	TESTR	—	Apr 2022	github-readme	90.31
16	DBNet++ (ResNet-18) (736)	—	Feb 2022	Real-Time Scene Text Detection with Differentiable Binar… · code	90.10
17	CharNet H-88 (single-scale)	—	Oct 2019	Convolutional Character Networks · code	89.99
18	CRAFT	—	Apr 2019	Character Region Awareness for Text Detection · code	89.80
19	FAST-B-1280	—	Nov 2021	FAST: Faster Arbitrarily-Shaped Text Detector with Minim… · code	89.70
20	Corner Localization (multi-scale)	—	Feb 2018	Multi-Oriented Scene Text Detection via Corner Localizat… · code	89.50
21	FAST-B-896	—	Nov 2021	FAST: Faster Arbitrarily-Shaped Text Detector with Minim… · code	89.20
22	CharNet H-57 (single-scale)	—	Oct 2019	Convolutional Character Networks · code	88.88
23	SPCNET	—	Nov 2018	Scene Text Detection with Supervised Pyramid Context Net… · code	88.70
24	Corner-based Region Proposals	—	Apr 2018	Detecting Multi-Oriented Text with Corner-based Region P… · code	88.70
25	FTSN + MNMS	—	Sep 2017	Fused Text Segmentation Networks for Multi-oriented Scen…	88.60
26	FAST-B-736	—	Nov 2021	FAST: Faster Arbitrarily-Shaped Text Detector with Minim… · code	88
27	Quad_MS	—	Jan 2018	TextBoxes++: A Single-Shot Oriented Scene Text Detector · code	87.80
28	PSENet-1s	—	Mar 2019	Shape Robust Text Detection with Progressive Scale Expan… · code	86.90
29	SAST	—	Aug 2019	A Single-Shot Arbitrarily-Shaped Text Detector based on … · code	86.72
30	FAST-S-736	—	Nov 2021	FAST: Faster Arbitrarily-Shaped Text Detector with Minim… · code	86.30
31	FAST-T-736	—	Nov 2021	FAST: Faster Arbitrarily-Shaped Text Detector with Minim… · code	86
32	PixelLink+VGG16 2s	—	Jul 2018	TextSnake: A Flexible Representation for Detecting Text … · code	85.50
33	SLPR	—	Jan 2018	PixelLink: Detecting Scene Text via Instance Segmentatio… · code	85.50
34	TextSnake	—	Aug 2019	Efficient and Accurate Arbitrary-Shaped Text Detection w… · code	84.90
35	PAN	—	Apr 2017	EAST: An Efficient and Accurate Scene Text Detector · code	84
36	EAST + PVANET2x RBOX (single-scale)	—	Apr 2017	EAST: An Efficient and Accurate Scene Text Detector · code	83.60
37	EAST + PVANET2x RBOX (multi-scale)	—	Sep 2017	Single Shot Text Detector with Regional Attention · code	83.30
38	SSTD	—	Aug 2017	WordSup: Exploiting Word Annotations for Character based…	80
39	WordSup (VGG16-synth-icdar)	—	Mar 2017	Detecting Oriented Text in Natural Images by Linking Seg… · code	79.30
40	SegLink	—	Apr 2016	Multi-Oriented Text Detection with Fully Convolutional N… · code	73.10
41	MCLAB_FCN	—	Apr 2021	PGNet: Real-time Arbitrarily-Shaped Text Spotting with P… · code	70.80

recall

41 rows

#	Model	Org	Submitted	Paper / code	recall
01	CharNet H-88 (single-scale)	—	Oct 2019	Convolutional Character Networks · code	91.98
02	TextFuseNet (ResNeXt-101)	—	May 2020	papers-with-code · code	90.56
03	CharNet H-88 (multi-scale)	—	Oct 2019	Convolutional Character Networks · code	90.47
04	CharNet H-57 (single-scale)	—	Oct 2019	Convolutional Character Networks · code	90.45
05	TESTR	—	Apr 2022	github-readme	89.70
06	CharNet H-50 (multi-scale)	—	Oct 2019	Convolutional Character Networks · code	89.44
07	CharNet H-57 (multi-scale)	—	Oct 2019	Convolutional Character Networks · code	88.74
08	CharNet H-50 (single-scale)	—	Oct 2019	Convolutional Character Networks · code	88.30
09	SBD	—	Dec 2019	Exploring the Capacity of an Orderless Box Discretizatio… · code	88.20
10	FOTS MS	—	Jan 2018	FOTS: Fast Oriented Text Spotting with a Unified Network · code	87.92
11	PMTD*	—	Mar 2019	Pyramid Mask Text Detector · code	87.43
12	SAST	—	Aug 2019	A Single-Shot Arbitrarily-Shaped Text Detector based on … · code	87.09
13	GNNets	—	Sep 2019	Geometry Normalization Networks for Accurate Scene Text … · code	86.71
14	SPCNET	—	Nov 2018	Scene Text Detection with Supervised Pyramid Context Net… · code	85.80
15	FOTS	—	Jan 2018	FOTS: Fast Oriented Text Spotting with a Unified Network · code	85.17
16	FAST-B-1280	—	Nov 2021	FAST: Faster Arbitrarily-Shaped Text Detector with Minim… · code	84.60
17	PSENet-1s	—	Mar 2019	Shape Robust Text Detection with Progressive Scale Expan… · code	84.50
18	CRAFT	—	Apr 2019	Character Region Awareness for Text Detection · code	84.30
19	DBNet++ (ResNet-50) (1152)	—	Feb 2022	Real-Time Scene Text Detection with Differentiable Binar… · code	83.90
20	FAST-B-896	—	Nov 2021	FAST: Faster Arbitrarily-Shaped Text Detector with Minim… · code	83.60
21	SLPR	—	Jan 2018	PixelLink: Detecting Scene Text via Instance Segmentatio… · code	83.60
22	DB-ResNet-50 (1152)	—	Nov 2019	Real-time Scene Text Detection with Differentiable Binar… · code	83.20
23	PixelLink+VGG16 2s	—	Jul 2018	TextSnake: A Flexible Representation for Detecting Text … · code	82
24	PAN	—	Apr 2017	EAST: An Efficient and Accurate Scene Text Detector · code	81.90
25	FAST-B-736	—	Nov 2021	FAST: Faster Arbitrarily-Shaped Text Detector with Minim… · code	81.70
26	Mask TextSpotter	—	Jul 2018	Mask TextSpotter: An End-to-End Trainable Neural Network… · code	81
27	Corner-based Region Proposals	—	Apr 2018	Detecting Multi-Oriented Text with Corner-based Region P… · code	80.70
28	TextSnake	—	Aug 2019	Efficient and Accurate Arbitrary-Shaped Text Detection w… · code	80.40
29	EK-NetOSS	Zhu et al.	Jan 2024	arxiv	80.24
30	FTSN + MNMS	—	Sep 2017	Fused Text Segmentation Networks for Multi-oriented Scen…	80
31	FAST-S-736	—	Nov 2021	FAST: Faster Arbitrarily-Shaped Text Detector with Minim… · code	79.80
32	Corner Localization (multi-scale)	—	Feb 2018	Multi-Oriented Scene Text Detection via Corner Localizat… · code	79.70
33	Quad_MS	—	Jan 2018	TextBoxes++: A Single-Shot Oriented Scene Text Detector · code	78.50
34	EAST + PVANET2x RBOX (multi-scale)	—	Sep 2017	Single Shot Text Detector with Regional Attention · code	78.30
35	FAST-T-736	—	Nov 2021	FAST: Faster Arbitrarily-Shaped Text Detector with Minim… · code	77.90
36	DBNet++ (ResNet-18) (736)	—	Feb 2022	Real-Time Scene Text Detection with Differentiable Binar… · code	77.20
37	WordSup (VGG16-synth-icdar)	—	Mar 2017	Detecting Oriented Text in Natural Images by Linking Seg… · code	77
38	SegLink	—	Apr 2016	Multi-Oriented Text Detection with Fully Convolutional N… · code	76.80
39	EAST + PVANET2x RBOX (single-scale)	—	Apr 2017	EAST: An Efficient and Accurate Scene Text Detector · code	73.50
40	SSTD	—	Aug 2017	WordSup: Exploiting Word Annotations for Character based…	73
41	MCLAB_FCN	—	Apr 2021	PGNet: Real-time Arbitrarily-Shaped Text Spotting with P… · code	43

Fig 2 · Rows sorted by score within each metric. Shaded row marks SOTA. Dates reflect model or paper release where available, otherwise the date Codesota accessed the source.

§ 04 · Literature

39 papers
tied to this benchmark.

Every paper below corresponds to at least one row in the leaderboard above. Click through for the arXiv preprint and, when available, the reference implementation.

Towards Unified Scene Text Spotting based on Sequence Generation
Apr 2023·UNITS
arXiv ↗Code
A3S: Adversarial learning of semantic representations for Scene-Text Spotting
Feb 2023·A3S
arXiv ↗
SPTS v2: Single-Point Scene Text Spotting
Jan 2023·SPTS v2
arXiv ↗Code
DeepSolo: Let Transformer Decoder with Explicit Points Solo for Text Spotting
Nov 2022·DeepSolo (ViTAEv2-S, TextOCR), DeepSolo (ResNet-50, TextOCR), DeepSolo (ResNet-50)
arXiv ↗Code
GLASS: Global to Local Attention for Scene-Text Spotting
Aug 2022·GLASS
arXiv ↗Code
Single Shot Self-Reliant Scene Text Spotter by Decoupled yet Collaborative Detection and Recognition
Jul 2022·SRTS
arXiv ↗Code
Text Spotting Transformers
Apr 2022·TESTR
arXiv ↗Code
SwinTextSpotter: Scene Text Spotting via Better Synergy between Text Detection and Text Recognition
Mar 2022·SwinTextSpotter
arXiv ↗Code
Real-Time Scene Text Detection with Differentiable Binarization and Adaptive Scale Fusion
Feb 2022·DBNet++ (ResNet-50) (1152), DBNet++ (ResNet-18) (736)
arXiv ↗Code
SPTS: Single-Point Text Spotting
Dec 2021·SPTS
arXiv ↗Code
FAST: Faster Arbitrarily-Shaped Text Detector with Minimalist Kernel Representation
Nov 2021·FAST-B-1280, FAST-B-896, FAST-B-736 +2
arXiv ↗Code
ABCNet v2: Adaptive Bezier-Curve Network for Real-time End-to-end Text Spotting
May 2021·ABCNet v2
arXiv ↗Code
PGNet: Real-time Arbitrarily-Shaped Text Spotting with Point Gathering Network
Apr 2021·PGNet-A, MCLAB_FCN, PGNet
arXiv ↗Code
MANGO: A Mask Attention Guided One-Stage Scene Text Spotter
Dec 2020·MANGO
arXiv ↗Code
Mask TextSpotter v3: Segmentation Proposal Network for Robust Scene Text Spotting
Jul 2020·MaskTextSpotter v3
arXiv ↗Code
Text Perceptron: Towards End-to-End Arbitrary-Shaped Text Spotting
Feb 2020·TextPerceptron
arXiv ↗Code
Exploring the Capacity of an Orderless Box Discretization Network for Multi-orientation Scene Text Detection
Dec 2019·SBD
arXiv ↗Code
Real-time Scene Text Detection with Differentiable Binarization
Nov 2019·DB-ResNet-50 (1152)
arXiv ↗Code
Convolutional Character Networks
Oct 2019·CharNet H-88 (multi-scale), CharNet H-88 (single-scale), CharNet H-50 (multi-scale) +3
arXiv ↗Code
Geometry Normalization Networks for Accurate Scene Text Detection
Sep 2019·GNNets
arXiv ↗Code
Efficient and Accurate Arbitrary-Shaped Text Detection with Pixel Aggregation Network
Aug 2019·TextSnake
arXiv ↗Code
A Single-Shot Arbitrarily-Shaped Text Detector based on Context Attended Multi-Task Learning
Aug 2019·SAST
arXiv ↗Code
Character Region Awareness for Text Detection
Apr 2019·CRAFT
arXiv ↗Code
Pyramid Mask Text Detector
Mar 2019·PMTD*
arXiv ↗Code
Shape Robust Text Detection with Progressive Scale Expansion Network
Mar 2019·PSENet-1s
arXiv ↗Code
Scene Text Detection with Supervised Pyramid Context Network
Nov 2018·SPCNET
arXiv ↗Code
Mask TextSpotter: An End-to-End Trainable Neural Network for Spotting Text with Arbitrary Shapes
Jul 2018·Mask TextSpotter
arXiv ↗Code
TextSnake: A Flexible Representation for Detecting Text of Arbitrary Shapes
Jul 2018·PixelLink+VGG16 2s
arXiv ↗Code
Detecting Multi-Oriented Text with Corner-based Region Proposals
Apr 2018·Corner-based Region Proposals
arXiv ↗Code
Multi-Oriented Scene Text Detection via Corner Localization and Region Segmentation
Feb 2018·Corner Localization (multi-scale)
arXiv ↗Code
TextBoxes++: A Single-Shot Oriented Scene Text Detector
Jan 2018·Quad_MS
arXiv ↗Code
FOTS: Fast Oriented Text Spotting with a Unified Network
Jan 2018·FOTS MS, FOTS
arXiv ↗Code
PixelLink: Detecting Scene Text via Instance Segmentation
Jan 2018·SLPR
arXiv ↗Code
Fused Text Segmentation Networks for Multi-oriented Scene Text Detection
Sep 2017·FTSN + MNMS
arXiv ↗
Single Shot Text Detector with Regional Attention
Sep 2017·EAST + PVANET2x RBOX (multi-scale)
arXiv ↗Code
WordSup: Exploiting Word Annotations for Character based Text Detection
Aug 2017·SSTD
arXiv ↗
EAST: An Efficient and Accurate Scene Text Detector
Apr 2017·PAN, EAST + PVANET2x RBOX (single-scale)
arXiv ↗Code
Detecting Oriented Text in Natural Images by Linking Segments
Mar 2017·WordSup (VGG16-synth-icdar)
arXiv ↗Code
Multi-Oriented Text Detection with Fully Convolutional Networks
Apr 2016·SegLink
arXiv ↗Code

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