A Multi-Oriented Text Detection Method in Natural Images Based on Linked Text Fields

A technology of connection detection and text detection, which is applied in the field of computer vision, can solve problems such as difficult to generate bounding boxes, does not contain spaces, and cannot provide visual information for dividing different words
CN106897732BActive Publication Date: 2019-10-08HUAZHONG UNIV OF SCI & TECH
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CN ยท China
Patent Type
Patents(China)
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HUAZHONG UNIV OF SCI & TECH
Publication Date
2019-10-08

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Abstract

The invention discloses a method for detecting multi-directional text in natural pictures based on connecting text fields. Text fields and connections are two key steps in the detection method, which are defined as follows: text fields refer to the division of many individual text fields on a picture Multi-directional bounding box regions, which surround a text strip or part of a word; concatenation refers to connecting adjacent fields, meaning that they belong to the same word or sentence. Text fields and connections are combined to detect equidistantly at multiple scales using a fully convolutional neural network trained end-to-end. The final detection result is obtained by first connecting multiple text fields to form new regions, and then combining these new regions. Compared with the existing technology, the detection method proposed by the present invention has achieved excellent results in terms of accuracy, speed, and model simplicity. It has high efficiency and strong robustness, can overcome complex picture backgrounds, and can also detect images in images. Long text in non-Latin scripts.
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[0001] The invention belongs to the technical field of computer vision, and more particularly, relates to a multi-directional text detection method in natural pictures based on connected text fields. Background technique

[0002] Reading text in natural images is a challenging and popular task with many practical applications in photo optical recognition, geolocation, and image retrieval. In text reading systems, text detection is to locate text regions with bounding boxes at the word level or text strip level, which is usually a very critical first step. In a sense, text detection can also be regarded as a special object detection, which takes words, characters or text strips as the detection target.

[0003] Although existing techniques have achieved great success in applying object detection methods to text detection, object detection methods still have several significant deficiencies in locating text regions. First, the aspect ratio of words or text st...

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