The ICDAR 2013 dataset consists of 229 training images and 233 testing images, with word-level annotations provided. It is the standard benchmark dataset for evaluating near-horizontal text detection.
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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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The COCO-Text dataset is a dataset for text detection and recognition. It is based on the MS COCO dataset, which contains images of complex everyday scenes. The COCO-Text dataset contains non-text images, legible text images and illegible text images. In total there are 22184 training images and 7026 validation images with at least one instance of legible text.
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ICDAR 2015 was a scene text detection used for the ICDAR 2015 conference.
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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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ICDAR2017 is a dataset for scene text detection.
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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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TextOCR is a dataset to benchmark text recognition on arbitrary shaped scene-text. TextOCR requires models to perform text-recognition on arbitrary shaped scene-text present on natural images. TextOCR provides ~1M high quality word annotations on TextVQA images allowing application of end-to-end reasoning on downstream tasks such as visual question answering or image captioning.
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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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A newly developed natural scene text dataset of Chinese shop signs in street views.
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Chinese and Naxi scene text detection data set, labelme to json.
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This dataset is an extremely challenging set of over 20,000+ original Number plate images captured and crowdsourced from over 700+ urban and rural areas, where each image is manually reviewed and verified by computer vision professionals at Datacluster Labs