Detection and rectification of arbitrary shaped scene texts by using text keypoints and links

• Main Authors: Xue, Chuhui, Lu, Shijian, Hoi, Steven
• Other Authors: School of Computer Science and Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Engineering::Computer science and engineering; Scene Text Recognition; Deep Learning
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/161795
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Detection and recognition of scene texts of arbitrary shapes remain a grand challenge due to the super-rich text shape variation in text line orientations, lengths, curvatures, etc. This paper presents a mask-guided multi-task network that detects and rectifies scene texts of arbitrary shapes reliab...