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All You Need Is Boundary: Toward Arbitrary-Shaped Text Spotting

arXiv 1911.09550 ↗First posted 21 Nov 2019cs.CVcited by 66

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Abstract (arXiv)

Recently, end-to-end text spotting that aims to detect and recognize text from cluttered images simultaneously has received particularly growing interest in computer vision. Different from the existing approaches that formulate text detection as bounding box extraction or instance segmentation, we localize a set of points on the boundary of each text instance. With the representation of such boundary points, we establish a simple yet effective scheme for end-to-end text spotting, which can read the text of arbitrary shapes. Experiments on three challenging datasets, including ICDAR2015, TotalText and COCO-Text demonstrate that the proposed method consistently surpasses the state-of-the-art in both scene text detection and end-to-end text recognition tasks.

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  1. 2021Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervisioncited by 33,744
  2. 2021TextOCR: Towards large-scale end-to-end reasoning for arbitrary-shaped scene textcited by 171
  3. 2021ABCNet v2: Adaptive Bezier-Curve Network for Real-time End-to-end Text Spottingcited by 84
  4. 2021Fourier Contour Embedding for Arbitrary-Shaped Text Detectioncited by 80
  5. 2022DeepSolo: Let Transformer Decoder with Explicit Points Solo for Text Spottingcited by 74
  6. 2024OmniParser: A Unified Framework for Text Spotting, Key Information Extraction and Table Recognitioncited by 74
  7. 2023A Comprehensive Survey on Applications of Transformers for Deep Learning Taskscited by 71
  8. 2022SwinTextSpotter: Scene Text Spotting via Better Synergy between Text Detection and Text Recognitioncited by 70
  9. 2022Text Spotting Transformerscited by 70
  10. 2023SPTS v2: Single-Point Scene Text Spottingcited by 66
  11. 2021PGNet: Real-time Arbitrarily-Shaped Text Spotting with Point Gathering Networkcited by 49
  12. 2021Adaptive Boundary Proposal Network for Arbitrary Shape Text Detectioncited by 47
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  1. 2021SPTS: Single-Point Text Spottingcited by 45
  2. 2022ABINet++: Autonomous, Bidirectional and Iterative Language Modeling for Scene Text Spottingcited by 40
  3. 2023ESTextSpotter: Towards Better Scene Text Spotting with Explicit Synergy in Transformercited by 29
  4. 2022Arbitrary Shape Text Detection via Boundary Transformercited by 28
  5. 2022Language Matters: A Weakly Supervised Vision-Language Pre-training Approach for Scene Text Detection and Spottingcited by 27
  6. 2021TPSNet: Reverse Thinking of Thin Plate Splines for Arbitrary Shape Scene Text Representationcited by 26
  7. 2025OmniParser V2: Structured-Points-of-Thought for Unified Visual Text Parsing and Its Generality to Multimodal Large Language Modelscited by 23
  8. 2021Scene Text Retrieval via Joint Text Detection and Similarity Learningcited by 15
  9. 2022Arbitrary Shape Text Detection via Segmentation with Probability Mapscited by 15
  10. 2021I3CL:Intra- and Inter-Instance Collaborative Learning for Arbitrary-shaped Scene Text Detectioncited by 14
  11. 2021CentripetalText: An Efficient Text Instance Representation for Scene Text Detectioncited by 13
  12. 2022COO: Comic Onomatopoeia Dataset for Recognizing Arbitrary or Truncated Textscited by 13
  13. 2022Text Growing on Leafcited by 11
  14. 2024DNTextSpotter: Arbitrary-Shaped Scene Text Spotting via Improved Denoising Trainingcited by 11
  15. 2022Knowledge Mining with Scene Text for Fine-Grained Recognitioncited by 10
  16. 2023Turning a CLIP Model into a Scene Text Spottercited by 9
  17. 2024Inverse-like Antagonistic Scene Text Spotting via Reading-Order Estimation and Dynamic Samplingcited by 9
  18. 2024Bridging the Gap Between End-to-End and Two-Step Text Spottingcited by 9
  19. 2023TextSLAM: Visual SLAM with Semantic Planar Text Featurescited by 8
  20. 2021All You Need is a Second Look: Towards Arbitrary-Shaped Text Detectioncited by 7
  21. 2021ARTS: Eliminating Inconsistency between Text Detection and Recognition with Auto-Rectification Text Spottercited by 7
  22. 2022A Survey on Visual Transfer Learning using Knowledge Graphscited by 7
  23. 2022DEER: Detection-agnostic End-to-End Recognizer for Scene Text Spottingcited by 7
  24. 2022Zoom Text Detectorcited by 7
  25. 2023DeepSolo++: Let Transformer Decoder with Explicit Points Solo for Multilingual Text Spottingcited by 7
  26. 2024InstructOCR: Instruction Boosting Scene Text Spottingcited by 7
  27. 2025Hyper-Local Deformable Transformers for Text Spotting on Historical Mapscited by 7
  28. 2022TRIE++: Towards End-to-End Information Extraction from Visually Rich Documentscited by 6
  29. 2022CBNet: A Plug-and-Play Network for Segmentation-Based Scene Text Detectioncited by 6
  30. 2021Detection and Rectification of Arbitrary Shaped Scene Texts by using Text Keypoints and Linkscited by 5
  31. 2021Implicit Feature Alignment: Learn to Convert Text Recognizer to Text Spottercited by 5
  32. 2024SwinTextSpotter v2: Towards Better Synergy for Scene Text Spottingcited by 5
  33. 2024SignEye: Traffic Sign Interpretation from Vehicle First-Person Viewcited by 5
  34. 2024Spotlight Text Detector: Spotlight on Candidate Regions Like a Cameracited by 4
  35. 2023PBFormer: Capturing Complex Scene Text Shape with Polynomial Band Transformercited by 3
  36. 2024WeCromCL: Weakly Supervised Cross-Modality Contrastive Learning for Transcription-only Supervised Text Spottingcited by 3
  37. 2024Partial Scene Text Retrievalcited by 3
  38. 2025Edge Approximation Text Detectorcited by 3

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