The PKU dataset has almost 4,000 images categorized into five groups (G1-G5) that show different situations. For example, G1 has images of highways during the day with only one car in them. On the other hand, G5 has images of crosswalks during the day or at night with multiple cars and license plates (LPs).
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The SCUT-CTW1500 dataset contains 1,500 images: 1,000 for training and 500 for testing. In particular, it provides 10,751 cropped text instance images, including 3,530 with curved text. The images are manually harvested from the Internet, image libraries such as Google Open-Image, or phone cameras. The dataset contains a lot of horizontal and multi-oriented text.
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Total-Text is a text detection dataset that consists of 1,555 images with a variety of text types including horizontal, multi-oriented, and curved text instances. The training split and testing split have 1,255 images and 300 images, respectively.
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The MSRA-TD500 dataset is a text detection dataset that contains 300 training images and 200 test images. Text regions are arbitrarily orientated and annotated at sentence level. Different from the other datasets, it contains both English and Chinese text.
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Chinese and Naxi scene text detection data set, labelme to json.
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Chinese Text in the Wild is a dataset of Chinese text with about 1 million Chinese characters from 3850 unique ones annotated by experts in over 30000 street view images. This is a challenging dataset with good diversity containing planar text, raised text, text under poor illumination, distant text, partially occluded text, etc.
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Features a large-scale dataset with 12,263 annotated images. Two tasks, namely text localization and end-to-end recognition, are set up. The competition took place from January 20 to May 31, 2017. 23 valid submissions were received from 19 teams.
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A newly developed natural scene text dataset of Chinese shop signs in street views.