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ICDAR2019 Robust Reading Challenge on Multi-lingual Scene Text Detection and Recognition -- RRC-MLT-2019

arXiv 1907.00945 ↗First posted 1 Jul 2019cs.CVcited by 138

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With the growing cosmopolitan culture of modern cities, the need of robust Multi-Lingual scene Text (MLT) detection and recognition systems has never been more immense. With the goal to systematically benchmark and push the state-of-the-art forward, the proposed competition builds on top of the RRC-MLT-2017 with an additional end-to-end task, an additional language in the real images dataset, a large scale multi-lingual synthetic dataset to assist the training, and a baseline End-to-End recognition method. The real dataset consists of 20,000 images containing text from 10 languages. The challenge has 4 tasks covering various aspects of multi-lingual scene text: (a) text detection, (b) cropped word script classification, (c) joint text detection and script classification and (d) end-to-end detection and recognition. In total, the competition received 60 submissions from the research and industrial communities. This paper presents the dataset, the tasks and the findings of the presented RRC-MLT-2019 challenge.

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  10. 2022Text Spotting Transformerscited by 70
  11. 2023SPTS v2: Single-Point Scene Text Spottingcited by 66
  12. 2021What If We Only Use Real Datasets for Scene Text Recognition? Toward Scene Text Recognition With Fewer Labelscited by 63
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  11. 2021PP-OCRv2: Bag of Tricks for Ultra Lightweight OCR Systemcited by 39
  12. 2021CDistNet: Perceiving Multi-Domain Character Distance for Robust Text Recognitioncited by 36
  13. 2022Optimal Boxes: Boosting End-to-End Scene Text Recognition by Adjusting Annotated Bounding Boxes via Reinforcement Learningcited by 33
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  15. 2023CLIP4STR: A Simple Baseline for Scene Text Recognition with Pre-trained Vision-Language Modelcited by 30
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  21. 2022Don't Forget Me: Accurate Background Recovery for Text Removal via Modeling Local-Global Contextcited by 18
  22. 2021Industrial Scene Text Detection with Refined Feature-attentive Networkcited by 16
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  27. 2023Scene Text Image Super-resolution based on Text-conditional Diffusion Modelscited by 15
  28. 2021I3CL:Intra- and Inter-Instance Collaborative Learning for Arbitrary-shaped Scene Text Detectioncited by 14
  29. 2022Seq-UPS: Sequential Uncertainty-aware Pseudo-label Selection for Semi-Supervised Text Recognitioncited by 14
  30. 2024Exploring the Capabilities of Large Multimodal Models on Dense Textcited by 14
  31. 2022TextDCT: Arbitrary-Shaped Text Detection via Discrete Cosine Transform Maskcited by 13
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  37. 2021Synthetic Map Generation to Provide Unlimited Training Data for Historical Map Text Detectioncited by 10
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