Text, as one of the most influential inventions of humanity, has played an important role in human life, so far from ancient times. The rich and precise information embod- ied in text is very useful in a wide range of...Text, as one of the most influential inventions of humanity, has played an important role in human life, so far from ancient times. The rich and precise information embod- ied in text is very useful in a wide range of vision-based ap- plications, therefore text detection and recognition in natu- ral scenes have become important and active research topics in computer vision and document analysis. Especially in re- cent years, the community has seen a surge of research efforts and substantial progresses in these fields, though a variety of challenges (e.g. noise, blur, distortion, occlusion and varia- tion) still remain. The purposes of this survey are three-fold: 1) introduce up-to-date works, 2) identify state-of-the-art al- gorithms, and 3) predict potential research directions in the future. Moreover, this paper provides comprehensive links to publicly available resources, including benchmark datasets, source codes, and online demos. In summary, this literature review can serve as a good reference for researchers in the areas of scene text detection and recognition.展开更多
文摘Text, as one of the most influential inventions of humanity, has played an important role in human life, so far from ancient times. The rich and precise information embod- ied in text is very useful in a wide range of vision-based ap- plications, therefore text detection and recognition in natu- ral scenes have become important and active research topics in computer vision and document analysis. Especially in re- cent years, the community has seen a surge of research efforts and substantial progresses in these fields, though a variety of challenges (e.g. noise, blur, distortion, occlusion and varia- tion) still remain. The purposes of this survey are three-fold: 1) introduce up-to-date works, 2) identify state-of-the-art al- gorithms, and 3) predict potential research directions in the future. Moreover, this paper provides comprehensive links to publicly available resources, including benchmark datasets, source codes, and online demos. In summary, this literature review can serve as a good reference for researchers in the areas of scene text detection and recognition.