Image-to-character-to-word transformers for accurate scene text recognition

• Main Authors: Xue, Chuhui, Huang, Jiaxing, Zhang, Wenqing, Lu, Shijian, Wang, Changhu, Bai, Song
• Other Authors: School of Computer Science and Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Engineering::Computer science and engineering; Scene Text Recognition; Transformer
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/172173
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Leveraging the advances of natural language processing, most recent scene text recognizers adopt an encoder-decoder architecture where text images are first converted to representative features and then a sequence of characters via 'sequential decoding'. However, scene text images suffer f...