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Image super-resolution (SR) has been widely investigated in recent years. However, it is challenging to fairly estimate the performance of various SR methods, as the lack of reliable and accurate criteria for the perceptual quality.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Yuqing Liu , Qi Jia , Shanshe Wang , Siwei Ma , Wen Gao

Recently, scene text detection has become an active research topic in computer vision and document analysis, because of its great importance and significant challenge. However, vast majority of the existing methods detect text within local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-06 Cong Yao , Xiang Bai , Nong Sang , Xinyu Zhou , Shuchang Zhou , Zhimin Cao

Scene text detection has witnessed rapid development in recent years. However, there still exists two main challenges: 1) many methods suffer from false positives in their text representations; 2) the large scale variance of scene texts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Yuxin Wang , Hongtao Xie , Zhengjun Zha , Mengting Xing , Zilong Fu , Yongdong Zhang

Scene text detection is a challenging problem in computer vision. In this paper, we propose a novel text detection network based on prevalent object detection frameworks. In order to obtain stronger semantic feature, we adopt ResNet as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Xiangyu Zhu , Yingying Jiang , Shuli Yang , Xiaobing Wang , Wei Li , Pei Fu , Hua Wang , Zhenbo Luo

Existing diffusion-based super-resolution approaches often exhibit semantic ambiguities due to inaccuracies and incompleteness in their text conditioning, coupled with the inherent tendency for cross-attention to divert towards irrelevant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Chen Chen , Majid Abdolshah , Violetta Shevchenko , Hongdong Li , Chang Xu , Pulak Purkait

Single image super resolution (SR), which refers to reconstruct a higher-resolution (HR) image from the observed low-resolution (LR) image, has received substantial attention due to its tremendous application potentials. Despite the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Yukai Shi , Keze Wang , Chongyu Chen , Li Xu , Liang Lin

Scene text image super-resolution (STISR) is an important pre-processing technique for text recognition from low-resolution scene images. Nowadays, various methods have been proposed to extract text-specific information from high-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Minyi Zhao , Yi Xu , Bingjia Li , Jie Wang , Jihong Guan , Shuigeng Zhou

Text segmentation tasks have a very wide range of application values, such as image editing, style transfer, watermark removal, etc.However, existing public datasets are of poor quality of pixel-level labels that have been shown to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Yibo Wang , Yunhu Ye , Yuanpeng Mao , Yanwei Yu , Yuanping Song

Automated recognition of texts in scenes has been a research challenge for years, largely due to the arbitrary variation of text appearances in perspective distortion, text line curvature, text styles and different types of imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Fangneng Zhan , Shijian Lu

Large-scale pre-trained diffusion models have been extensively adopted for real-world image Super-Resolution because of their powerful generative priors through textual guidance. However, when super-resolving high-resolution images with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Qingji Dong , Hang Dong , Mingqin Chen , Rui Zhang , Yitong Wang

Scene text recognition has attracted a great many researches due to its importance to various applications. Existing methods mainly adopt recurrence or convolution based networks. Though have obtained good performance, these methods still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-11 Fenfen Sheng , Zhineng Chen , Bo Xu

In real-world scenarios, image recognition tasks, such as semantic segmentation and object detection, often pose greater challenges due to the lack of information available within low-resolution (LR) content. Image super-resolution (SR) is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Jaeha Kim , Junghun Oh , Kyoung Mu Lee

Scene text recognition has attracted great interests from the computer vision and pattern recognition community in recent years. State-of-the-art methods use concolutional neural networks (CNNs), recurrent neural networks with long…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-07 Fei Yin , Yi-Chao Wu , Xu-Yao Zhang , Cheng-Lin Liu

Reading text from natural images is challenging due to the great variety in text font, color, size, complex background and etc.. The perspective distortion and non-linear spatial arrangement of characters make it further difficult. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Shangbang Long , Yushuo Guan , Bingxuan Wang , Kaigui Bian , Cong Yao

In this paper, we present a method for enhancing the accuracy of scene text recognition tasks by judging whether the image and text match each other. While previous studies focused on generating the recognition results from input images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Masato Fujitake

The history of text can be traced back over thousands of years. Rich and precise semantic information carried by text is important in a wide range of vision-based application scenarios. Therefore, text recognition in natural scenes has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Xiaoxue Chen , Lianwen Jin , Yuanzhi Zhu , Canjie Luo , Tianwei Wang

Scene text removal (STR) is a challenging task due to the complex text fonts, colors, sizes, and background textures in scene images. However, most previous methods learn both text location and background inpainting implicitly within a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Guangtao Lyu , Anna Zhu

Super-resolution (SR) is a key technique for improving the visual quality of video content by increasing its spatial resolution while reconstructing fine details. SR has been employed in many applications including video streaming, where…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-10 Yuxuan Jiang , Jakub Nawała , Chen Feng , Fan Zhang , Xiaoqing Zhu , Joel Sole , David Bull

Reading text in the wild is a challenging task in the field of computer vision. Existing approaches mainly adopted Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) or Attention models based on Recurrent Neural Network (RNN), which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-14 Yunze Gao , Yingying Chen , Jinqiao Wang , Hanqing Lu

Recently, many convolutional neural networks for single image super-resolution (SISR) have been proposed, which focus on reconstructing the high-resolution images in terms of objective distortion measures. However, the networks trained with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-12 Jae Woong Soh , Gu Yong Park , Junho Jo , Nam Ik Cho