Related Works

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Survey

Text Detection and Recognition in Imagery: A Survey

IEEE Trans. PAMI
Nov 3, 2014 - Qixiang Ye, David Doermann

Scene text detection and recognition: Recent advances and future trends

SpringerLink
Jun 22, 2015 - Y. Zhu, C. Yao, and X. Bai - Frontiers of Computer Science (2016)

Text localization and recognition in images and video

SpringerLink
Apr 30, 2014 - S. Uchida - Handbook of Document Image Processing and Recognition (2014)

Detection

Deep Features for Text Spotting

ECCV 2014 paper

Faster R-CNN: Towards Real-Time Object Detection with Region Proposal Networks

arXiv:1506.01497
Jun 4, 2015 - Shaoqing Ren, Kaiming He, Ross Girshick, Jian Sun

HyperNet: Towards Accurate Region Proposal Generation and Joint Object Detection

CVPR 2016 arXiv:1604.00600
Apr 3, 2016 - Tao Kong, Anbang Yao, Yurong Chen, Fuchun Sun

Detecting Text in Natural Image with Connectionist Text Proposal Network

ECCV 2016 arXiv:1609.03605
Sep 12, 2016 - Zhi Tian, Weilin Huang, Tong He, Pan He, Yu Qiao

TextBoxes: A Fast Text Detector with a Single Deep Neural Network

arXiv:1611.06779
Nov 21, 2016 - Minghui Liao, Baoguang Shi, Xiang Bai, Xinggang Wang, Wenyu Liu

Feature Pyramid Networks for Object Detection

arxiv:1612.03144
Dec 9, 2016 - Tsung-Yi Lin, Piotr Dollár, Ross Girshick, Kaiming He, Bharath Hariharan, Serge Belongie

Deep Matching Prior Network: Toward Tighter Multi-oriented Text Detection

arXiv:1703.01425
Mar 4, 2017 - Yuliang Liu, Lianwen Jin

Detecting Oriented Text in Natural Images by Linking Segments

arXiv:1703.06520
Mar 9, 2017 - Baoguang Shi, Xiang Bai, Serge Belongie

Deep Direct Regression for Multi-Oriented Scene Text Detection

arXiv:1703.08289
Mar 24, 2017 - Wenhao He, Xu-Yao Zhang, Fei Yin, Cheng-Lin Liu

Arbitrary-Oriented Scene Text Detection via Rotation Proposals

arXiv:1703.01086
Mar 25, 2017 - Jianqi Ma, Weiyuan Shao, Hao Ye, Li Wang, Hong Wang, Yingbin Zheng, Xiangyang Xue

R²CNN: Rotational Region CNN for Orientation Robust Scene Text Detection

arXiv:1706.09579
June 30, 2017 - Yingying Jiang, Xiangyu Zhu, Xiaobing Wang, Shuli Yang, Wei Li, Hua Wang, Pei Fu and Zhenbo Luo

EAST: An Efficient and Accurate Scene Text Detector

arXiv:1704.03155
Jul 10, 2017 - Xinyu Zhou, Cong Yao, He Wen, Yuzhi Wang, Shuchang Zhou, Weiran He, and Jiajun Liang

ArbiText: Arbitrary-Oriented Text Detection in Unconstrained Scene

arXiv:1711.11249
Nov 30, 2017 - Daitao Xing, Zichen Li, Xin Chen, Yi Fang

Detecting Curve Text in the Wild: New Dataset and New Solution

arXiv:1712.02170
Dec 6, 2017 - Yuliang Liu, Lianwen Jin, Shuaitao Zhang, Sheng Zhang

Fused Text Segmentation Networks for Multi-oriented Scene Text Detection

arXiv:1709.03272
Dec 25, 2017 - Yuchen Dai, Zheng Huang, Yuting Gao, Youxuan Xu, Kai Chen, Jie Guo, Weidong Qiu

PixelLink: Detecting Scene Text via Instance Segmentation

AAAI-2018 arXiv:1801.01315
Jan 4, 2018 - Dan Deng, Haifeng Liu, Xuelong Li, Deng Cai

TextBoxes++: A Single-Shot Oriented Scene Text Detector

arXiv:1801.02765
Jan 9, 2018 - Minghui Liao, Baoguang Shi, Xiang Bai

Multi-Oriented Scene Text Detection via Corner Localization and Region Segmentation

arXiv:1802.08948
Feb 27, 2018 - Pengyuan Lyu, Cong Yao, Wenhao Wu, Shuicheng Yan, Xiang Bai

Rotation-Sensitive Regression for Oriented Scene Text Detection

CVPR 2018 arXiv:1803.05265
Mar 14, 2018 - Minghui Liao, Zhen Zhu, Baoguang Shi, Gui-song Xia, Xiang Bai

Recognition

An End-to-End Trainable Neural Network for Image-based Sequence Recognition and Its Application to Scene Text Recognition

IEEE Trans. PAMI arXiv:1507.05717
Jul 21, 2015 - Baoguang Shi, Xiang Bai, Cong Yao

STAR-Net: a SpaTial attention residue network for scene text recognition

BMVA Press HKU
Sep 20, 2016 - Liu W, Chen C, Wong KKY, Su Z, Han J

DropRegion Training of Inception Font Network for High-Performance Chinese Font Recognition

arXiv:1703.05870
Mar 17, 2017 - Shuangping Huangm Zhuoyao Zhong, Lianwen Jin, Shuye Zhang, Haobin Wang

End-to-end

Towards End-to-end Text Spotting with Convolutional Recurrent Neural Networks

arXiv:1707.03985
Jul 13, 2017 - Hui Li, Peng Wang, Chunhua Shen

FOTS: Fast Oriented Text Spotting with a Unified Network

CVPR 2018 arXiv:1801.01671
Jan 5, 2018 - Xuebo Liu, Ding Liang, Shi Yan, Dagui Chen, Yu Qiao, Junjie Yan

An end-to-end TextSpotter with Explicit Alignment and Attention

CVPR 2018 arXiv:1803.03474 Code (Test Only)
Mar 9, 2018 - Tong He, Zhi Tian, Weilin Huang, Chunhua Shen, Yu Qiao, Changming Sun
HoText (To appear)

Object Detection

Rich feature hierarchies for accurate object detection and semantic segmentation

CVPR 2014

Region-based convolutional networks for accurate object detection and segmentation

IEEE Trans. PAMI
Jan 1, 2016 - Ross Girshick, Jeff Donahue, Trevor Darrell and Jitendra Malik

Spatial pyramid pooling in deep convolutional networks for visual recognition

ECCV 2014 arXiv:1406.4729 Code
Jun 18, 2016 - Kaiming He, Xiangyu Zhang, Shaoqing Ren, and Jian Sun

Fast R-CNN

ICCV 2015 arXiv:1504.08083 Code
Sep 27, 2015 - Ross Girshick

Faster R-CNN: Towards Real-Time Object Detection with Region Proposal Networks

NIPS 2015 arXiv:1506.01497 Code-Matlab Code-Python
Jun 4, 2015 - Shaoqing Ren, Kaiming He, Ross Girshick, and Jian Sun

PVANET: Deep but Lightweight Neural Networks for Real-time Object Detection

arXiv:1701.06659 Code
Aug 29, 2016 - Kye-Hyeon Kim, Sanghoon Hong, Byungseok Roh, Yeongjae Cheon, Minje Park

Mask R-CNN

ICCV 2017 oral arXiv:1703.06870 Code/Model
Mar 20, 2017 - Kaiming He, Georgia Gkioxari, Piotr Dollár, and Ross Girshick
YOLO
YOLO9000
YOLOv3
SSD
DenseBox

DSSD : Deconvolutional Single Shot Detector

arXiv:1701.06659
Jan 23, 2017 - Cheng-Yang Fu, Wei Liu, Ananth Ranga, Ambrish Tyagi, Alexander C. Berg

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