Scene Text Detection

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Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

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Datasets archive 2025-07-28

17 datasets whose archive record lists this task, ordered by the archive's paper count.

Subtasks archive 2025-07-28

2 subtasks in the archive's task tree.

Most implemented papers archive 2025-07-28

30 shown of 98 papers with code (213 tagged with this task in all), ordered by repositories listed in the archive, not by stars (the archive holds no stars, so PwC's “Social” and “Latest” sorts cannot be reproduced). Papers without a page here are shown as plain text.

• EAST: An Efficient and Accurate Scene Text Detector
  11 Apr 2017 31 repositories listed Syntology ran 5 of 6 samples · 1 unverified · 1 pointer-only (licence)
  Previous approaches for scene text detection have already achieved promising performances across various benchmarks.
• Detecting Text in Natural Image with Connectionist Text Proposal Network
  12 Sep 2016 27 repositories listed Syntology ran 3 of 35 samples · 32 unverified · 1 pointer-only (licence)
  We propose a novel Connectionist Text Proposal Network (CTPN) that accurately localizes text lines in natural image.
• Shape Robust Text Detection with Progressive Scale Expansion Network
  28 Mar 2019 19 repositories listed
  Due to the fact that there are large geometrical margins among the minimal scale kernels, our method is effective to split the close text instances, making it easier to use segmentation-based methods to detect…
• Character Region Awareness for Text Detection
  3 Apr 2019 18 repositories listed Syntology ran 6 of 40 samples · 34 unverified · 4 pointer-only (licence)
  Scene text detection methods based on neural networks have emerged recently and have shown promising results.
• ABCNet: Real-time Scene Text Spotting with Adaptive Bezier-Curve Network
  24 Feb 2020 16 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 1 samples · 1 unverified · 1 pointer-only (licence)
  Our contributions are three-fold: 1) For the first time, we adaptively fit arbitrarily-shaped text by a parameterized Bezier curve.
• Real-time Scene Text Detection with Differentiable Binarization
  20 Nov 2019 15 repositories listed Syntology ran 3 of 25 samples · 22 unverified
  Recently, segmentation-based methods are quite popular in scene text detection, as the segmentation results can more accurately describe scene text of various shapes such as curve text.
• Fourier Contour Embedding for Arbitrary-Shaped Text Detection
  21 Apr 2021 12 repositories listed Syntology ran 2 of 7 samples · 5 unverified
  One of the main challenges for arbitrary-shaped text detection is to design a good text instance representation that allows networks to learn diverse text geometry variances.
• Shape Robust Text Detection with Progressive Scale Expansion Network
  7 Jun 2018 9 repositories listed Syntology ran 5 of 24 samples · 19 unverified · 2 pointer-only (licence)
  To address these problems, we propose a novel Progressive Scale Expansion Network (PSENet), designed as a segmentation-based detector with multiple predictions for each text instance.
• FOTS: Fast Oriented Text Spotting with a Unified Network
  5 Jan 2018 7 repositories listed
  Incidental scene text spotting is considered one of the most difficult and valuable challenges in the document analysis community.
• TextFuseNet: Scene Text Detection with Richer Fused Features
  17 May 2020 6 repositories listed
  More specifically, we propose to perceive texts from three levels of feature representations, i.
• Efficient and Accurate Arbitrary-Shaped Text Detection with Pixel Aggregation Network
  16 Aug 2019 6 repositories listed Syntology ran 4 of 28 samples · 24 unverified
  Recently, some methods have been proposed to tackle arbitrary-shaped text detection, but they rarely take the speed of the entire pipeline into consideration, which may fall short in practical applications.
• Detecting Oriented Text in Natural Images by Linking Segments
  19 Mar 2017 6 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 1 samples · 0 unverified · 1 pointer-only (licence)
  It achieves an f-measure of 75.
• Real-Time Scene Text Detection with Differentiable Binarization and Adaptive Scale Fusion
  21 Feb 2022 5 repositories listed
  By incorporating the proposed DB and ASF with the segmentation network, our proposed scene text detector consistently achieves state-of-the-art results, in terms of both detection accuracy and speed, on five standard…
• PixelLink: Detecting Scene Text via Instance Segmentation
  4 Jan 2018 5 repositories listed
  Most state-of-the-art scene text detection algorithms are deep learning based methods that depend on bounding box regression and perform at least two kinds of predictions: text/non-text classification and location…
• Robust Scene Text Recognition with Automatic Rectification
  12 Mar 2016 5 repositories listed
  We show that the model is able to recognize several types of irregular text, including perspective text and curved text.
• Arbitrary-Oriented Scene Text Detection via Rotation Proposals
  3 Mar 2017 4 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 1 samples · 1 unverified
  This paper introduces a novel rotation-based framework for arbitrary-oriented text detection in natural scene images.
• COCO-Text: Dataset and Benchmark for Text Detection and Recognition in Natural Images
  26 Jan 2016 4 repositories listed
  The goal of COCO-Text is to advance state-of-the-art in text detection and recognition in natural images.
• Towards End-to-End Unified Scene Text Detection and Layout Analysis
  28 Mar 2022 3 repositories listed Syntology ran 8 of 15 samples · 7 unverified · 15 pointer-only (licence)
  In this paper, we bring them together and introduce the task of unified scene text detection and layout analysis.
• UnrealText: Synthesizing Realistic Scene Text Images from the Unreal World
  24 Mar 2020 3 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 3 samples · 3 unverified
  Synthetic data has been a critical tool for training scene text detection and recognition models.
• TextSnake: A Flexible Representation for Detecting Text of Arbitrary Shapes
  4 Jul 2018 3 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 6 samples · 5 unverified
  Driven by deep neural networks and large scale datasets, scene text detection methods have progressed substantially over the past years, continuously refreshing the performance records on various standard benchmarks.
• TextBoxes++: A Single-Shot Oriented Scene Text Detector
  9 Jan 2018 3 repositories listed
  In this paper, we present an end-to-end trainable fast scene text detector, named TextBoxes++, which detects arbitrary-oriented scene text with both high accuracy and efficiency in a single network forward pass.
• STN-OCR: A single Neural Network for Text Detection and Text Recognition
  27 Jul 2017 3 repositories listed
  In contrast to most existing works that consist of multiple deep neural networks and several pre-processing steps we propose to use a single deep neural network that learns to detect and recognize text from natural…
• SRFormer: Text Detection Transformer with Incorporated Segmentation and Regression
  21 Aug 2023 2 repositories listed
  In light of this, we constrain the incorporation of segmentation branches to the first few decoder layers and employ progressive regression refinement in subsequent layers, achieving performance gains while minimizing…
• LRANet: Towards Accurate and Efficient Scene Text Detection with Low-Rank Approximation Network
  27 Jun 2023 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 19 samples · 18 unverified
  Next, we propose a dual assignment scheme for speed acceleration.
• Vision-Language Pre-Training for Boosting Scene Text Detectors
  29 Apr 2022 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 5 of 7 samples · 2 unverified
  In this paper, we specifically adapt vision-language joint learning for scene text detection, a task that intrinsically involves cross-modal interaction between the two modalities: vision and language, since text is the…
• SwinTextSpotter: Scene Text Spotting via Better Synergy between Text Detection and Text Recognition
  19 Mar 2022 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 4 of 5 samples · 1 unverified · 5 pointer-only (licence)
  End-to-end scene text spotting has attracted great attention in recent years due to the success of excavating the intrinsic synergy of the scene text detection and recognition.
• FAST: Faster Arbitrarily-Shaped Text Detector with Minimalist Kernel Representation
  3 Nov 2021 2 repositories listed
  We propose an accurate and efficient scene text detection framework, termed FAST (i.
• PGNet: Real-time Arbitrarily-Shaped Text Spotting with Point Gathering Network
  12 Apr 2021 2 repositories listed
  With a PG-CTC decoder, we gather high-level character classification vectors from two-dimensional space and decode them into text symbols without NMS and RoI operations involved, which guarantees high efficiency.
• Pyramid Mask Text Detector
  28 Mar 2019 2 repositories listed
  Scene text detection, an essential step of scene text recognition system, is to locate text instances in natural scene images automatically.
• ShopSign: a Diverse Scene Text Dataset of Chinese Shop Signs in Street Views
  25 Mar 2019 2 repositories listed
  Hence, we collect and annotate the ShopSign dataset to advance research in Chinese scene text detection and recognition.

Syntology lines on 16 of the papers shown; no Syntology record for the others (a paper without an arXiv id cannot be joined to the graph, and absence from the graph layer is not a recorded non-run). “Ran” means the sample executed on a synthesized fixture, not that the paper's result was reproduced. Read from the graph 2026-09-24.