Scene Text Detection via Deep Semantic Feature Fusion and Attention-based Refinement

Abstract

Despite tremendous progress in scene text detection in the past few years, efficient text detection in the wild remains challenging, particularly for the texts have large rotations, and the complicated background areas that are easily confused with text. In this paper, we propose an effective approach for scene text detection, which consists of initial text detection using the proposed deep semantic feature fusion of a fully convolutional network (FCN), and text detection refinement by our attention based text vs. non-text classifier learned in a fine-to-coarse fashion. The proposed approach outperforms the state-of-the-art scene text detection algorithms on the public-domain ICDAR2015 dataset, achieving an accuracy of 0.83 in terms of F-measure.