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Scene Text Detection with Supervised Pyramid Context Network

21 Nov 2018arXiv:1811.08605archive 2025-07-28

Enze Xie, Yuhang Zang, Shuai Shao, Gang Yu, Cong Yao, Guangyao Li

Scene text detection methods based on deep learning have achieved remarkable results over the past years. However, due to the high diversity and complexity of natural scenes, previous state-of-the-art text detection methods may still produce a considerable amount of false positives, when applied to images captured in real-world environments. To tackle this issue, mainly inspired by Mask R-CNN, we propose in this paper an effective model for scene text detection, which is based on Feature Pyramid Network (FPN) and instance segmentation. We propose a supervised pyramid context network (SPCNET) to precisely locate text regions while suppressing false positives. Benefited from the guidance of semantic information and sharing FPN, SPCNET obtains significantly enhanced performance while introducing marginal extra computation. Experiments on standard datasets demonstrate that our SPCNET clearly outperforms start-of-the-art methods. Specifically, it achieves an F-measure of 92.1% on ICDAR2013, 87.2% on ICDAR2015, 74.1% on ICDAR2017 MLT and 82.9% on Total-Text.

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DiversityInstance SegmentationScene Text DetectionSemantic SegmentationText Detection

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Scene Text Detection ICDAR 2013 SPCNET F-Measure 92.1% #2 of 16 Archive leaderboard report
Scene Text Detection ICDAR 2013 SPCNET Precision 93.8 #2 of 16 Archive leaderboard report
Scene Text Detection ICDAR 2013 SPCNET Recall 90.5 #2 of 16 Archive leaderboard report
Scene Text Detection ICDAR 2015 SPCNET F-Measure 87.2 #15 of 43 Archive leaderboard report
Scene Text Detection ICDAR 2015 SPCNET Precision 88.7 #15 of 43 Archive leaderboard report
Scene Text Detection ICDAR 2015 SPCNET Recall 85.8 #15 of 43 Archive leaderboard report
Scene Text Detection ICDAR 2017 MLT SPCNET F-Measure 74.1% #7 of 14 Archive leaderboard report
Scene Text Detection ICDAR 2017 MLT SPCNET Precision 80.6 #7 of 14 Archive leaderboard report
Scene Text Detection ICDAR 2017 MLT SPCNET Recall 68.6 #7 of 14 Archive leaderboard report
Scene Text Detection Total-Text SPCNET F-Measure 82.9% #19 of 27 Archive leaderboard report
Scene Text Detection Total-Text SPCNET Precision 83 #19 of 27 Archive leaderboard report
Scene Text Detection Total-Text SPCNET Recall 82.8 #19 of 27 Archive leaderboard report

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1x1 ConvolutionConvolutionFPN

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