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DiffusionSTR: Diffusion Model for Scene Text Recognition

29 Jun 2023arXiv:2306.16707archive 2025-07-28

Masato Fujitake

This paper presents Diffusion Model for Scene Text Recognition (DiffusionSTR), an end-to-end text recognition framework using diffusion models for recognizing text in the wild. While existing studies have viewed the scene text recognition task as an image-to-text transformation, we rethought it as a text-text one under images in a diffusion model. We show for the first time that the diffusion model can be applied to text recognition. Furthermore, experimental results on publicly available datasets show that the proposed method achieves competitive accuracy compared to state-of-the-art methods.

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Tasks

Image to textScene Text Recognitionmodel

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Scene Text Recognition CUTE80 DiffusionSTR Accuracy 92.5 #15 of 18 Archive leaderboard report
Scene Text Recognition ICDAR2013 DiffusionSTR Accuracy 97.1 #18 of 38 Archive leaderboard report
Scene Text Recognition ICDAR2015 DiffusionSTR Accuracy 86 #13 of 27 Archive leaderboard report
Scene Text Recognition IIIT5k DiffusionSTR Accuracy 97.3 #12 of 17 Archive leaderboard report
Scene Text Recognition SVT DiffusionSTR Accuracy 93.6 #20 of 37 Archive leaderboard report
Scene Text Recognition SVTP DiffusionSTR Accuracy 89.2 #16 of 17 Archive leaderboard report

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