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  • An End-to-End Trainable Neural Network for Image-Based Sequence Recognition and Its Application to Scene Text Recognition

    Baoguang Shi, Xiang Bai, Cong Yao

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2016

    A novel neural network architecture, which integrates feature extraction, sequence modeling and transcription into a unified framework, is proposed, which generates an effective yet much smaller model, which is more practical for real-world application scenarios.

    3,175
  • EAST: An Efficient and Accurate Scene Text Detector

    Xinyu Zhou, Cong Yao, He Wen, Yuzhi Wang, Shuchang Zhou, Weiran He, Jiajun Liang

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2017

    This work proposes a simple yet powerful pipeline that yields fast and accurate text detection in natural scenes, and significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods in terms of both accuracy and efficiency.

    1,850
  • ASTER: An Attentional Scene Text Recognizer with Flexible Rectification

    Baoguang Shi, Mingkun Yang, Xinggang Wang, Pengyuan Lyu, Cong Yao, Xiang Bai

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2018

    906
  • Real-Time Scene Text Detection with Differentiable Binarization

    Minghui Liao, Zhaoyi Wan, Cong Yao, Kai Chen, Xiang Bai

    Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2020

    This paper proposes a module named Differentiable Binarization (DB), which can perform the binarization process in a segmentation network, and validate the performance improvements of DB on five benchmark datasets, which consistently achieves state-of-the-art results, in terms of both detection accuracy and speed.

    891
  • Detecting texts of arbitrary orientations in natural images

    Cong Yao, Xiang Bai, Wenyu Liu, Yi Ma, Zhuowen Tu A

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2012

    879
  • Robust Scene Text Recognition with Automatic Rectification

    Baoguang Shi, Xinggang Wang, Pengyuan Lyu, Cong Yao, Xiang Bai

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2016

    RARE (Robust text recognizer with Automatic REctification), a recognition model that is robust to irregular text, which is end-to-end trainable, requiring only images and associated text labels, making it convenient to train and deploy the model in practical systems.

    693
  • Mask TextSpotter: An End-to-End Trainable Neural Network for Spotting Text with Arbitrary Shapes

    Minghui Liao, Pengyuan Lyu, Minghang He, Cong Yao, Wenhao Wu, Xiang Bai

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2019

    The recognition module of the Mask TextSpotter method is investigated separately, which significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods on both regular and irregular text datasets for scene text recognition.

    650
  • TextSnake: A Flexible Representation for Detecting Text of Arbitrary Shapes

    Shangbang Long, Jiaqiang Ruan, Wenjie Zhang, Xin James He, Wenhao Wu, Cong Yao

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2018

    A more flexible representation for scene text is proposed, termed as TextSnake, which is able to effectively represent text instances in horizontal, oriented and curved forms and outperforms the baseline on Total-Text by more than 40% in F-measure.

    636
  • Multi-oriented Text Detection with Fully Convolutional Networks

    Zheng Zhang, Chengquan Zhang, Wei Shen, Cong Yao, Wenyu Liu, Xiang Bai

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2016

    A novel approach for text detection in natural images that consistently achieves the state-of-the-art performance on three text detection benchmarks: MSRA-TD500, I CDAR2015 and ICDAR2013.

    596
  • Scene Text Detection and Recognition: The Deep Learning Era

    Shangbang Long, Xin James He, Cong Yao

    International Journal of Computer Vision · 2020

    This survey is aimed at summarizing and analyzing the major changes and significant progresses of scene text detection and recognition in the deep learning era.

    527
  • Real-Time Scene Text Detection With Differentiable Binarization and Adaptive Scale Fusion

    Minghui Liao, Zhisheng Zou, Zhaoyi Wan, Cong Yao, Xiang Bai

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2022

    A Differentiable Binarization (DB) module that integrates the binarization process, one of the most important steps in the post-processing procedure, into a segmentation network is proposed and an efficient Adaptive Scale Fusion (ASF) module is proposed to improve the scale robustness by fusing features of different scales adaptively.

    431
  • Scene text detection and recognition: recent advances and future trends

    Yingying Zhu, Cong Yao, Xiang Bai

    Frontiers of Computer Science · 2015

    This literature review can serve as a good reference for researchers in the areas of scene text detection and recognition and identify state-of-the-art algorithms, and predict potential research directions in the future.

    402
  • Multi-oriented Scene Text Detection via Corner Localization and Region Segmentation

    Pengyuan Lyu, Cong Yao, Wenhao Wu, Shuicheng Yan, Xiang Bai

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2018

    This paper proposes to detect scene text by localizing corner points of text bounding boxes and segmenting text regions in relative positions and achieves better or comparable results in both accuracy and efficiency.

    389
  • A Unified Framework for Multioriented Text Detection and Recognition

    Cong Yao, Xiang Bai, Wenyu Liu

    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing · 2014

    343
  • Strokelets: A Learned Multi-scale Representation for Scene Text Recognition

    Cong Yao, Xiang Bai, Baoguang Shi, Wenyu Liu

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2014

    310
  • Symmetry-based text line detection in natural scenes

    Zheng Zhang, Wei Shen, Cong Yao, Xiang Bai

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2015

    278
  • ICDAR2017 Competition on Reading Chinese Text in the Wild (RCTW-17)

    Baoguang Shi, Cong Yao, Minghui Liao, Mingkun Yang, Pei Xu, Linyan Cui, Serge Belongie, Shijian Lu, +1 more

    2017 14th IAPR International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR) · 2017

    This report introduces RCTW, a new competition that focuses on Chinese text reading with a large-scale dataset with over 12,000 annotated images and calls for more future research on the Chinese textReading problem.

    256
  • Scene Text Recognition from Two-Dimensional Perspective

    Minghui Liao, Jian Zhang, Zhaoyi Wan, Fengming Xie, Jiajun Liang, Pengyuan Lyu, Cong Yao, Xiang Bai

    Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2019

    A simple yet effective model, called Character Attention Fully Convolutional Network (CA-FCN), is devised for recognizing the text of arbitrary shapes with a semantic segmentation network, where an attention mechanism for characters is adopted.

    251
  • Scene Text Detection with Supervised Pyramid Context Network

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

    Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2019

    A supervised pyramid context network (SPCNET) is proposed to precisely locate text regions while suppressing false positives in scene text detection, based on Feature Pyramid Network (FPN) and instance segmentation.

    238
  • Deep Learning Representation using Autoencoder for 3D Shape Retrieval

    Zhuotun Zhu, Xinggang Wang, Song Bai, Cong Yao, Xiang Bai

    Neurocomputing · 2016

    This work projects 3D shapes into 2D space and uses autoencoder for feature learning on the 2D images and shows the proposed deep learning feature is complementary to conventional local image descriptors, which can obtain the state-of-the-art performance on 3D shape retrieval benchmarks.

    187
  • Scene Text Detection via Holistic, Multi-Channel Prediction

    Cong Yao, Xiang Bai, Nong Sang, Xinyu Zhou, Shuchang Zhou, Zhimin Cao

    arXiv · 2016

    185
  • LayoutLLM: Layout Instruction Tuning with Large Language Models for Document Understanding

    Chuwei Luo, Yufan Shen, Zhaoqing Zhu, Qi Zheng, Zhi Yu, Cong Yao

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2024

    Experiments show that the proposed LayoutLLM significantly outperforms existing methods that adopt open-source 7B LLMs/MLLMs for document understanding, and brings a certain degree of interpretability, which could facilitate manual inspection and correction.

    163
  • TextScanner: Reading Characters in Order for Robust Scene Text Recognition

    Zhaoyi Wan, Minghang He, Haoran Chen, Xiang Bai, Cong Yao

    Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2020

    TextScanner bears three characteristics: it belongs to the semantic segmentation family, as it generates pixel-wise, multi-channel segmentation maps for character class, position and order, and also adopts RNN for context modeling.

    162
  • Symmetry-Constrained Rectification Network for Scene Text Recognition

    Mingkun Yang, Yushuo Guan, Minghui Liao, Xin James He, Kaigui Bian, Song Bai, Cong Yao, Xiang Bai

    IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · 2019

    A Symmetry-constrained Rectification Network (ScRN) based on local attributes of text instances, such as center line, scale and orientation, which enables ScRN to generate better rectification results than existing methods and thus lead to higher recognition accuracy.

    153
  • Auto-Encoder Guided GAN for Chinese Calligraphy Synthesis

    Pengyuan Lyu, Xiang Bai, Cong Yao, Zhen Zhu, Tengteng Huang, Wenyu Liu

    2017 14th IAPR International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR) · 2017

    This work treats the calligraphy synthesis problem as an image-to-image translation problem and proposes a deep neural network based model which can generate calligraphY images from standard font images directly.

    152

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