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綜述
[2015-PAMI-Overview]Text Detection and Recognition in Imagery: A Survey[paper]
[2014-Front.Comput.Sci-Overview]Scene Text Detection and Recognition: Recent Advances and Future Trends[paper]
自然場景文字檢測
[2017-AAAI] TextBoxes: A Fast TextDetector with a Single Deep Neural Network[paper][code]
[2016-arXiv]Accurate Text Localization in Natural Image with Cascaded Convolutional TextNetwork [paper]
[2016-arXiv]DeepText : A Unified Framework for Text Proposal Generation and Text Detectionin Natural Images [paper] [data]
[2016-arXiv]TextProposals: a Text-specific Selective Search Algorithm for Word Spotting inthe Wild [paper] [code]
[2016-arXiv] SceneText Detection via Holistic, Multi-Channel Prediction [paper]
[2016-CVPR] CannyText Detector: Fast and Robust Scene Text Localization Algorithm [paper]
[2016-CVPR]Synthetic Data for Text Localisation in Natural Images [paper] [data][code]
[2016-ECCV]Detecting Text in Natural Image with Connectionist Text Proposal Network[paper][demo][code]
[2016-TIP]Text-Attentional Convolutional Neural Networks for Scene Text Detection [paper]
[2016-IJDAR]TextCatcher: a method to detect curved and challenging text in natural scenes[paper]
[2016-CVPR]Multi-oriented text detection with fully convolutional networks [paper]
[2015-TPRMI]Real-time Lexicon-free Scene Text Localization and Recognition[paper]
[2015-CVPR]Symmetry-Based Text Line Detection in Natural Scenes[paper][code]
[2015-ICCV]FASText: Efficient unconstrained scene text detector[paper][code]
[2015-D.PhilThesis] Deep Learning for Text Spotting [paper]
[2015 ICDAR]Object Proposals for Text Extraction in the Wild [paper] [code]
[2014-ECCV] DeepFeatures for Text Spotting [paper] [code] [model] [GitXiv]
[2014-TPAMI] WordSpotting and Recognition with Embedded Attributes [paper] [homepage] [code]
[2014-TPRMI]Robust Text Detection in Natural Scene Images[paper]
[2014-ECCV] RobustScene Text Detection with Convolution Neural Network Induced MSER Trees [paper]
[2012-CVPR]Real-time scene text localization and recognition[paper][code]
[2010-CVPR]DetectingText in Natural Scenes with Stroke Width Transform [paper] [code]
自然場景文字識别
[2016-AAAI]Reading Scene Text in Deep Convolutional Sequences [paper]
[2016-IJCV]Reading Text in the Wild with Convolutional Neural Networks [paper] [demo] [homepage]
[2016-CVPR]Recursive Recurrent Nets with Attention Modeling for OCR in the Wild [paper]
[2016-CVPR] RobustScene Text Recognition with Automatic Rectification [paper]
[2016-NIPs] Generative Shape Models: Joint Text Recognition and Segmentation with Very Little Training Data[paper]
[2015-CoRR] AnEnd-to-End Trainable Neural Network for Image-based Sequence Recognition andIts Application to Scene Text Recognition [paper] [code]
[2015-ICDAR]AutomaticScript Identification in the Wild[paper]
[2015-ICLR] Deepstructured output learning for unconstrained text recognition [paper]
[2014-NIPS]Synthetic Data and Artificial Neural Networks for Natural Scene TextRecognition [paperhomepage] [model]
[2014-TIP] A Unified Framework for Multi-Oriented Text Detection and Recognition [paper]
[2012-ICPR]End-to-End Text Recognition with Convolutional Neural Networks [paper] [code] [SVHN Dataset]
資料集
COCO-Text (ComputerVision Group, Cornell) 2016
63,686images, 173,589 text instances, 3 fine-grained text attributes.
Task:text location and recognition
COCO-Text API
Synthetic Data for Text Localisation in Natural Image (VGG)2016
800k thousand images
8 million synthetic word instances
download
Synthetic Word Dataset (Oxford, VGG) 2014
9million images covering 90k English words
Task:text recognition, segmentation
download
IIIT 5K-Words 2012
5000images from Scene Texts and born-digital (2k training and 3k testing images)
Eachimage is a cropped word image of scene text with case-insensitive labels
Task:text recognition
download
StanfordSynth(Stanford, AI Group) 2012
Smallsingle-character images of 62 characters (0-9, a-z, A-Z)
Task:text recognition
download
MSRA Text Detection 500 Database(MSRA-TD500) 2012
500natural images(resolutions of the images vary from 1296x864 to 1920x1280)
Chinese,English or mixture of both
Task:text detection
Street View Text (SVT) 2010
350high resolution images (average size 1260 × 860) (100 images for training and250 images for testing)
Onlyword level bounding boxes are provided with case-insensitive labels
Task:text location
KAIST Scene_Text Database 2010
3000images of indoor and outdoor scenes containing text
Korean,English (Number), and Mixed (Korean + English + Number)
Task:text location, segmentation and recognition
Chars74k 2009
Over74K images from natural images, as well as a set of synthetically generatedcharacters
Smallsingle-character images of 62 characters (0-9, a-z, A-Z)
Task:text recognition
ICDARBenchmark Datasets
| Dataset | Discription | Competition Paper |
| ICDAR 2015 | 1000 training images and 500 testing images | paper |
| ICDAR 2013 | 229 training images and 233 testing images | paper |
| ICDAR 2011 | 229 training images and 255 testing images | paper |
| ICDAR 2005 | 1001 training images and 489 testing images | paper |
| ICDAR 2003 | 181 training images and 251 testing images(word level and character level) | paper |
開源庫
Tesseract: c++ based tools for documents analysis and OCR,support 60+ languages [code]
Ocropy: Python-based tools for document analysis and OCR [code]
CLSTM : A small C++ implementation of LSTM networks,focused on OCR [code]
ConvolutionalRecurrent Neural Network,Torch7 based [code]
Attention-OCR: Visual Attention based OCR [code]
Umaru: An OCR-system based on torch using the techniqueof LSTM/GRU-RNN, CTC and referred to the works of rnnlib and clstm [code]
其他
DeepFont:Identify Your Font from An Image[paper]
Writer-independentFeature Learning for Offline Signature Verification using Deep ConvolutionalNeural Networks[paper]
End-to-EndInterpretation of the French Street Name Signs Dataset [paper] [code]
Extractingtext from an image using Ocropus [blog]
手寫字識别
[2016-Arvix]Drawingand Recognizing Chinese Characters with Recurrent Neural Network [paper]
LearningSpatial-Semantic Context with Fully Convolutional Recurrent Network for OnlineHandwritten Chinese Text Recognition [paper]
StrokeSequence-Dependent Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Online HandwrittenChinese Character Recognition [paper]
HighPerformance Offline Handwritten Chinese Character Recognition Using GoogLeNetand Directional Feature Maps [paper] [github]
DeepHCCR:Offline Handwritten Chinese Character Recognition based on GoogLeNet andAlexNet (With CaffeModel) [code]
如何用卷積神經網絡CNN識别手寫數字集？[blog][blog1][blog2] [blog4] [blog5] [code6]
Scan,Attend and Read: End-to-End Handwritten Paragraph Recognition with MDLSTMAttention [paper]
MLPaint:the Real-Time Handwritten Digit Recognizer [blog][code][demo]
caffe-ocr: OCR with caffe deep learning framework [code] (單字分類器)
牌照等識别
ReadingCar License Plates Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks and LSTMs [paper]
Numberplate recognition with Tensorflow [blog] [code]
end-to-end-for-plate-recognition[code]
ApplyingOCR Technology for Receipt Recognition[blog][mirror]
破解驗證碼
Usingdeep learning to break a Captcha system [blog] [code]
Breakingreddit captcha with 96% accuracy [blog] [code]
I'mnot a human: Breaking the Google reCAPTCHA [paper]
NeuralNet CAPTCHA Cracker [slides] [code] [demo]
Recurrentneural networks for decoding CAPTCHAS [blog] [code] [demo]
Readingirctc captchas with 95% accuracy using deep learning [code]
端到端的OCR：基于CNN的實作 [blog]
IAm Robot: (Deep) Learning to Break Semantic Image CAPTCHAs [paper]
參考
[1]http://handong1587.github.io/deep_learning/2015/10/09/ocr.html
[2]https://github.com/chongyangtao/Awesome-Scene-Text-Recognition