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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

Scene Text Image Super-Resolution (STISR) aims to restore high-resolution details in low-resolution text images, which is crucial for both human readability and machine recognition. Existing methods, however, often depend on external…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Axi Niu , Kang Zhang , Qingsen Yan , Hao Jin , Jinqiu Sun , Yanning Zhang

In the last decade, the blossom of deep learning has witnessed the rapid development of scene text recognition. However, the recognition of low-resolution scene text images remains a challenge. Even though some super-resolution methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Jingye Chen , Haiyang Yu , Jianqi Ma , Bin Li , Xiangyang Xue

Multi-modal models have shown appealing performance in visual recognition tasks, as free-form text-guided training evokes the ability to understand fine-grained visual content. However, current models cannot be trivially applied to scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Yongkun Du , Zhineng Chen , Yuchen Su , Caiyan Jia , Yu-Gang Jiang

Image Super-Resolution (SR) aims to reconstruct high-resolution images from degraded low-resolution inputs. While diffusion-based SR methods offer powerful generative capabilities, their performance heavily depends on how semantic priors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Lei Jiang , Xin Liu , Xinze Tong , Zhiliang Li , Jie Liu , Jie Tang , Gangshan Wu

Scene Text Image Super-resolution (STISR) aims to recover high-resolution (HR) scene text images with visually pleasant and readable text content from the given low-resolution (LR) input. Most existing works focus on recovering English…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Jianqi Ma , Zhetong Liang , Wangmeng Xiang , Xi Yang , Lei Zhang

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

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

Most existing image restoration methods use neural networks to learn strong image-level priors from huge data to estimate the lost information. However, these works still struggle in cases when images have severe information deficits.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Yunpeng Bai , Cairong Wang , Shuzhao Xie , Chao Dong , Chun Yuan , Zhi Wang

Blind text image super-resolution (SR) is challenging as one needs to cope with diverse font styles and unknown degradation. To address the problem, existing methods perform character recognition in parallel to regularize the SR task,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Xiaoming Li , Wangmeng Zuo , Chen Change Loy

Existing scene text removal (STR) task suffers from insufficient training data due to the expensive pixel-level labeling. In this paper, we aim to address this issue by introducing a Text-aware Masked Image Modeling algorithm (TMIM), which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Zixiao Wang , Hongtao Xie , YuXin Wang , Yadong Qu , Fengjun Guo , Pengwei Liu

Image Super-Resolution (ISR) has seen significant progress with the introduction of remarkable generative models. However, challenges such as the trade-off issues between fidelity and realism, as well as computational complexity, have also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Yunpeng Qu , Kun Yuan , Jinhua Hao , Kai Zhao , Qizhi Xie , Ming Sun , Chao Zhou

Existing Scene Text Recognition (STR) methods typically use a language model to optimize the joint probability of the 1D character sequence predicted by a visual recognition (VR) model, which ignore the 2D spatial context of visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Yue He , Chen Chen , Jing Zhang , Juhua Liu , Fengxiang He , Chaoyue Wang , Bo Du

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 Recognition (STR) models have achieved high performance in recent years on benchmark datasets where text images are presented with minimal noise. Traditional STR recognition pipelines take a cropped image as sole input and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Joshua Cesare Placidi , Yishu Miao , Zixu Wang , Lucia Specia

Driven by deep learning and the large volume of data, scene text recognition has evolved rapidly in recent years. Formerly, RNN-attention based methods have dominated this field, but suffer from the problem of \textit{attention drift} in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Zhaoyi Wan , Minghang He , Haoran Chen , Xiang Bai , Cong Yao

Image super-resolution(SR) is fundamental to many vision system-from surveillance and autonomy to document analysis and retail analytics-because recovering high-frequency details, especially scene-text, enables reliable downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Mingyu Sung , Seungjae Ham , Kangwoo Kim , Yeokyoung Yoon , Sangseok Yun , Il-Min Kim , Jae-Mo Kang

Single-image super-resolution (SISR) remains challenging due to the inherent difficulty of recovering fine-grained details and preserving perceptual quality from low-resolution inputs. Existing methods often rely on limited image priors,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Kangfu Mei , Hossein Talebi , Mojtaba Ardakani , Vishal M. Patel , Peyman Milanfar , Mauricio Delbracio

The introduction of generative models has significantly advanced image super-resolution (SR) in handling real-world degradations. However, they often incur fidelity-related issues, particularly distorting textual structures. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Qiming Hu , Linlong Fan , Yiyan Luo , Yuhang Yu , Xiaojie Guo , Qingnan Fan

Faithful text image super-resolution (SR) is challenging because each character has a unique structure and usually exhibits diverse font styles and layouts. While existing methods primarily focus on English text, less attention has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Xiaoming Li , Wangmeng Zuo , Chen Change Loy