{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/scene-text-removal-via-cascaded-text-stroke","title":"Scene text removal via cascaded text stroke detection and erasing","arxiv_id":"2011.09768","date":"2020-11-19","proceeding":null,"authors":["Xuewei Bian","Chaoqun Wang","Weize Quan","Juntao Ye","Xiaopeng Zhang","Dong-Ming Yan"],"abstract":"Recent learning-based approaches show promising performance improvement for scene text removal task. However, these methods usually leave some remnants of text and obtain visually unpleasant results. In this work, we propose a novel \"end-to-end\" framework based on accurate text stroke detection. Specifically, we decouple the text removal problem into text stroke detection and stroke removal. We design a text stroke detection network and a text removal generation network to solve these two sub-problems separately. Then, we combine these two networks as a processing unit, and cascade this unit to obtain the final model for text removal. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art approaches for locating and erasing scene text. Since current publicly available datasets are all synthetic and cannot properly measure the performance of different methods, we therefore construct a new real-world dataset, which will be released to facilitate the relevant research.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.09768v1","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2011.09768v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"scene-text-removal-via-cascaded-text-stroke","repo_url":"https://github.com/wcq19941215/SceneTextRemoval","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"tf","reach":{"status":"unanswered"}}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":"https://syntology.ai/paper/2011.09768","atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=2011.09768","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}