Fused Text Segmentation Networks for Multi-oriented Scene Text Detection

In this paper, we introduce a novel end-end framework for multi-oriented scene text detection from an instance-aware semantic segmentation perspective. We present Fused Text Segmentation Networks, which combine multi-level features during the feature extracting as text instance may rely on finer fea...

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Published in:	2018 24th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) pp. 3604 - 3609
Main Authors:	Dai, Yuchen, Huang, Zheng, Gao, Yuting, Xu, Youxuan, Chen, Kai, Guo, Jie, Qiu, Weidong
Format:	Conference Proceeding
Language:	English
Published:	IEEE 01.08.2018
Subjects:	Benchmark testing Feature extraction Object detection Pipelines Semantics Task analysis
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Summary:	In this paper, we introduce a novel end-end framework for multi-oriented scene text detection from an instance-aware semantic segmentation perspective. We present Fused Text Segmentation Networks, which combine multi-level features during the feature extracting as text instance may rely on finer feature expression compared to general objects. It detects and segments the text instance jointly and simultaneously, leveraging merits from both semantic segmentation task and region proposal based object detection task. Not involving any extra pipelines, our approach surpasses the current state of the art on multi-oriented scene text detection benchmarks: ICDAR2015 Incidental Scene Text and MSRA-TD500 reaching Hmean 84.1 % and 82.0 % respectively. Morever, we report a baseline on total-text containing curved text which suggests effectiveness of the proposed approach.
DOI:	10.1109/ICPR.2018.8546066