A Single-Shot Arbitrarily-Shaped Text Detector based on Context Attended Multi-Task Learning

1 code implementation • 15 Aug 2019 • Pengfei Wang, Chengquan Zhang, Fei Qi, Zuming Huang, Mengyi En, Junyu Han, Jingtuo Liu, Errui Ding, Guangming Shi

Detecting scene text of arbitrary shapes has been a challenging task over the past years.

Multi-Task Learning Optical Character Recognition (OCR) +2

Look More Than Once: An Accurate Detector for Text of Arbitrary Shapes

no code implementations • CVPR 2019 • Chengquan Zhang, Borong Liang, Zuming Huang, Mengyi En, Junyu Han, Errui Ding, Xinghao Ding

Previous scene text detection methods have progressed substantially over the past years.

Scene Text Detection Text Detection

TextNet: Irregular Text Reading from Images with an End-to-End Trainable Network

no code implementations • 24 Dec 2018 • Yipeng Sun, Chengquan Zhang, Zuming Huang, Jiaming Liu, Junyu Han, Errui Ding

Reading text from images remains challenging due to multi-orientation, perspective distortion and especially the curved nature of irregular text.

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Text Detection

Extraction of Virtual Baselines From Distorted Document Images Using Curvilinear Projection

no code implementations • ICCV 2015 • Gaofeng Meng, Zuming Huang, Yonghong Song, Shiming Xiang, Chunhong Pan

In this paper, we propose an efficient method for accurate extraction of these virtual visual cues from a curved document image.