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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

Scene text recognition (STR) is very challenging due to the diversity of text instances and the complexity of scenes. The community has paid increasing attention to boost the performance by improving the pre-processing image module, like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Hui Zhang , Quanming Yao , Mingkun Yang , Yongchao Xu , Xiang Bai

Scene Text Editing (STE) is a challenging research problem, that primarily aims towards modifying existing texts in an image while preserving the background and the font style of the original text. Despite its utility in numerous real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Alloy Das , Sanket Biswas , Prasun Roy , Subhankar Ghosh , Umapada Pal , Michael Blumenstein , Josep Lladós , Saumik Bhattacharya

Scene text detection has received attention for years and achieved an impressive performance across various benchmarks. In this work, we propose an efficient and accurate approach to detect multioriented text in scene images. The proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Liang Zhang , Yufei Liu , Hang Xiao , Lu Yang , Guangming Zhu , Syed Afaq Shah , Mohammed Bennamoun , Peiyi Shen

Until recently, the number of public real-world text images was insufficient for training scene text recognizers. Therefore, most modern training methods rely on synthetic data and operate in a fully supervised manner. Nevertheless, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Aviad Aberdam , Roy Ganz , Shai Mazor , Ron Litman

Large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) face an inherent contradiction in image captioning: their powerful single-step generation capabilities often lead to a myopic decision-making process. This makes it difficult to maintain global narrative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Jusheng Zhang , Kaitong Cai , Jing Yang , Jian Wang , Chengpei Tang , Keze Wang

Single image reflection removal (SIRR) is challenging in real scenes, where reflection strength varies spatially and reflection patterns are tightly entangled with transmission structures. This paper presents a diffusion model with prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Telang Xu , Chaoyang Zhang , Guangtao Zhai , Xiaohong Liu

Scene text detection methods based on deep learning have achieved remarkable results over the past years. However, due to the high diversity and complexity of natural scenes, previous state-of-the-art text detection methods may still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Enze Xie , Yuhang Zang , Shuai Shao , Gang Yu , Cong Yao , Guangyao Li

Pre-trained text-to-image diffusion models are increasingly applied to real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR) task. Given the iterative refinement nature of diffusion models, most existing approaches are computationally expensive.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Linwei Dong , Qingnan Fan , Yihong Guo , Zhonghao Wang , Qi Zhang , Jinwei Chen , Yawei Luo , Changqing Zou

Street-view image has been widely applied as a crucial mobile mapping data source. The inpainting of street-view images is a critical step for street-view image processing, not only for the privacy protection, but also for the urban…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Jianshun Zeng , Wang Li , Yanjie Lv , Shuai Gao , YuChu Qin

Burst image super resolution (BISR) aims to construct a single high-resolution (HR) image by aggregating information from multiple low-resolution (LR) frames, relying on temporal redundancy and spatial coherence across the burst. While…

In text-to-image generation, different initial noises induce distinct denoising paths with a pretrained Stable Diffusion (SD) model. While this pattern could output diverse images, some of them may fail to align well with the prompt.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Yunze Tong , Didi Zhu , Zijing Hu , Jinluan Yang , Ziyu Zhao

Multi-image super-resolution (MISR) allows to increase the spatial resolution of a low-resolution (LR) acquisition by combining multiple images carrying complementary information in the form of sub-pixel offsets in the scene sampling, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Luca Savant Aira , Diego Valsesia , Andrea Bordone Molini , Giulia Fracastoro , Enrico Magli , Andrea Mirabile

While diffusion models show promising results in image editing given a target prompt, achieving both prompt fidelity and background preservation remains difficult. Recent works have introduced score distillation techniques that leverage the…

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

In text recognition, self-supervised pre-training emerges as a good solution to reduce dependence on expansive annotated real data. Previous studies primarily focus on local visual representation by leveraging mask image modeling or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Zuan Gao , Yuxin Wang , Yadong Qu , Boqiang Zhang , Zixiao Wang , Jianjun Xu , Hongtao Xie

Recent text-to-image diffusion models can generate striking visuals from text prompts, but they often fail to maintain subject consistency across generations and contexts. One major limitation of current fine-tuning approaches is the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Gordon Chen , Ziqi Huang , Cheston Tan , Ziwei Liu

Scene text recognition is a hot research topic in computer vision. Recently, many recognition methods based on the encoder-decoder framework have been proposed, and they can handle scene texts of perspective distortion and curve shape.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Zhi Qiao , Yu Zhou , Dongbao Yang , Yucan Zhou , Weiping Wang

Blind image deblurring is a challenging problem in computer vision, which aims to restore both the blur kernel and the latent sharp image from only a blurry observation. Inspired by the prevalent self-example prior in image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Yuanchao Bai , Huizhu Jia , Ming Jiang , Xianming Liu , Xiaodong Xie , Wen Gao

Detecting and recognizing text in natural scene images is a challenging, yet not completely solved task. In re- cent years several new systems that try to solve at least one of the two sub-tasks (text detection and text recognition) have…

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