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TextBoxes: A Fast Text Detector with a Single Deep Neural Network

arXiv 1611.06779 ↗First posted 21 Nov 2016cs.CVcited by 119

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This paper presents an end-to-end trainable fast scene text detector, named TextBoxes, which detects scene text with both high accuracy and efficiency in a single network forward pass, involving no post-process except for a standard non-maximum suppression. TextBoxes outperforms competing methods in terms of text localization accuracy and is much faster, taking only 0.09s per image in a fast implementation. Furthermore, combined with a text recognizer, TextBoxes significantly outperforms state-of-the-art approaches on word spotting and end-to-end text recognition tasks.

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  2. 2024General OCR Theory: Towards OCR-2.0 via a Unified End-to-end Modelcited by 180
  3. 2022Real-Time Scene Text Detection with Differentiable Binarization and Adaptive Scale Fusioncited by 94
  4. 2021ABCNet v2: Adaptive Bezier-Curve Network for Real-time End-to-end Text Spottingcited by 84
  5. 2022DeepSolo: Let Transformer Decoder with Explicit Points Solo for Text Spottingcited by 74
  6. 2022SwinTextSpotter: Scene Text Spotting via Better Synergy between Text Detection and Text Recognitioncited by 70
  7. 2022Text Spotting Transformerscited by 70
  8. 2023SPTS v2: Single-Point Scene Text Spottingcited by 66
  9. 2021PAN++: Towards Efficient and Accurate End-to-End Spotting of Arbitrarily-Shaped Textcited by 65
  10. 2022Few Could Be Better Than All: Feature Sampling and Grouping for Scene Text Detectioncited by 65
  11. 2021What If We Only Use Real Datasets for Scene Text Recognition? Toward Scene Text Recognition With Fewer Labelscited by 63
  12. 2022DPText-DETR: Towards Better Scene Text Detection with Dynamic Points in Transformercited by 50
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  2. 2021Adaptive Boundary Proposal Network for Arbitrary Shape Text Detectioncited by 47
  3. 2021SPTS: Single-Point Text Spottingcited by 45
  4. 2023Turning a CLIP Model into a Scene Text Detectorcited by 44
  5. 2024Document Parsing Unveiled: Techniques, Challenges, and Prospects for Structured Information Extractioncited by 44
  6. 2025A Survey of Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generationcited by 37
  7. 2021MOST: A Multi-Oriented Scene Text Detector with Localization Refinementcited by 33
  8. 2022Optimal Boxes: Boosting End-to-End Scene Text Recognition by Adjusting Annotated Bounding Boxes via Reinforcement Learningcited by 33
  9. 2024Hi-SAM: Marrying Segment Anything Model for Hierarchical Text Segmentationcited by 30
  10. 2022Arbitrary Shape Text Detection via Boundary Transformercited by 28
  11. 2021PolarMask++: Enhanced Polar Representation for Single-Shot Instance Segmentation and Beyondcited by 27
  12. 2023Towards Unified Scene Text Spotting based on Sequence Generationcited by 27
  13. 2021TPSNet: Reverse Thinking of Thin Plate Splines for Arbitrary Shape Scene Text Representationcited by 26
  14. 2021Stroke-Based Scene Text Erasing Using Synthetic Data for Trainingcited by 20
  15. 2025HunyuanOCR Technical Reportcited by 20
  16. 2021A Multiplexed Network for End-to-End, Multilingual OCRcited by 18
  17. 2022Vision-Language Pre-Training for Boosting Scene Text Detectorscited by 18
  18. 2022Kernel Proposal Network for Arbitrary Shape Text Detectioncited by 17
  19. 2021Industrial Scene Text Detection with Refined Feature-attentive Networkcited by 16
  20. 2021I3CL:Intra- and Inter-Instance Collaborative Learning for Arbitrary-shaped Scene Text Detectioncited by 14
  21. 2021CentripetalText: An Efficient Text Instance Representation for Scene Text Detectioncited by 13
  22. 2022TextDCT: Arbitrary-Shaped Text Detection via Discrete Cosine Transform Maskcited by 13
  23. 2022Text Growing on Leafcited by 11
  24. 2021Video Text Tracking With a Spatio-Temporal Complementary Modelcited by 10
  25. 2024ODM: A Text-Image Further Alignment Pre-training Approach for Scene Text Detection and Spottingcited by 10
  26. 2021FAST: Faster Arbitrarily-Shaped Text Detector with Minimalist Kernel Representationcited by 9
  27. 2023Turning a CLIP Model into a Scene Text Spottercited by 9
  28. 2024Inverse-like Antagonistic Scene Text Spotting via Reading-Order Estimation and Dynamic Samplingcited by 9
  29. 2024Bridging the Gap Between End-to-End and Two-Step Text Spottingcited by 9
  30. 2021All You Need is a Second Look: Towards Arbitrary-Shaped Text Detectioncited by 7
  31. 2022DEER: Detection-agnostic End-to-End Recognizer for Scene Text Spottingcited by 7
  32. 2022Zoom Text Detectorcited by 7
  33. 2024InstructOCR: Instruction Boosting Scene Text Spottingcited by 7
  34. 2022Transfer Learning for Scene Text Recognition in Indian Languagescited by 6
  35. 2022Arbitrary Shape Text Detection using Transformerscited by 6
  36. 2022TRIE++: Towards End-to-End Information Extraction from Visually Rich Documentscited by 6
  37. 2022CBNet: A Plug-and-Play Network for Segmentation-Based Scene Text Detectioncited by 6
  38. 2023A3S: Adversarial learning of semantic representations for Scene-Text Spottingcited by 6

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