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This paper aims to re-assess scene text recognition (STR) from a data-oriented perspective. We begin by revisiting the six commonly used benchmarks in STR and observe a trend of performance saturation, whereby only 2.91% of the benchmark…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Qing Jiang , Jiapeng Wang , Dezhi Peng , Chongyu Liu , Lianwen Jin

Scene text recognition (STR) in the wild frequently encounters challenges when coping with domain variations, font diversity, shape deformations, etc. A straightforward solution is performing model fine-tuning tailored to a specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Zhen Zhao , Jingqun Tang , Chunhui Lin , Binghong Wu , Can Huang , Hao Liu , Xin Tan , Zhizhong Zhang , Yuan Xie

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

Incorporating linguistic knowledge can improve scene text recognition, but it is questionable whether the same holds for scene text spotting, which typically involves text detection and recognition. This paper proposes a method that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Nguyen Nguyen , Yapeng Tian , Chenliang Xu

Scene text recognition in low-resource Indian languages is challenging because of complexities like multiple scripts, fonts, text size, and orientations. In this work, we investigate the power of transfer learning for all the layers of deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Sanjana Gunna , Rohit Saluja , C. V. Jawahar

Recently, the semantics of scene text has been proven to be essential in fine-grained image classification. However, the existing methods mainly exploit the literal meaning of scene text for fine-grained recognition, which might be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Hao Wang , Junchao Liao , Tianheng Cheng , Zewen Gao , Hao Liu , Bo Ren , Xiang Bai , Wenyu Liu

Deep neural networks frequently suffer from performance degradation when the training data is long-tailed because several majority classes dominate the training, resulting in a biased model. Recent studies have made a great effort in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Mengke Li , Yiu-ming Cheung , Juyong Jiang

Scene text recognition (STR) has attracted much attention due to its broad applications. The previous works pay more attention to dealing with the recognition of Latin text images with complex backgrounds by introducing language models or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Haiyang Yu , Xiaocong Wang , Bin Li , Xiangyang Xue

Convolutional neural networks have achieved great improvement on face recognition in recent years because of its extraordinary ability in learning discriminative features of people with different identities. To train such a well-designed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Xiao Zhang , Zhiyuan Fang , Yandong Wen , Zhifeng Li , Yu Qiao

Scene text recognition (STR) methods have demonstrated their excellent capability in English text images. However, due to the complex inner structures of Chinese and the extensive character categories, it poses challenges for recognizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Qilong Li , Chongsheng Zhang

Deep learning-based models encounter challenges when processing long-tailed data in the real world. Existing solutions usually employ some balancing strategies or transfer learning to deal with the class imbalance problem, based on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Changyao Tian , Wenhai Wang , Xizhou Zhu , Jifeng Dai , Yu Qiao

Deep learning enables impressive performance in image recognition using large-scale artificially-balanced datasets. However, real-world datasets exhibit highly class-imbalanced distributions, yielding two main challenges: relative imbalance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Saurabh Sharma , Ning Yu , Mario Fritz , Bernt Schiele

Most existing scene text detectors require large-scale training data which cannot scale well due to two major factors: 1) scene text images often have domain-specific distributions; 2) collecting large-scale annotated scene text images is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Zichen Tian , Chuhui Xue , Jingyi Zhang , Shijian Lu

As Large Language Models (LLMs) can now process extremely long contexts, efficient inference over these extended inputs has become increasingly important, especially for emerging applications like LLM agents that highly depend on this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Penghui Yang , Cunxiao Du , Fengzhuo Zhang , Haonan Wang , Tianyu Pang , Chao Du , Bo An

Monocular depth estimation and semantic segmentation are two fundamental goals of scene understanding. Due to the advantages of task interaction, many works study the joint task learning algorithm. However, most existing methods fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Tianxiao Gao , Wu Wei , Zhongbin Cai , Zhun Fan , Shane Xie , Xinmei Wang , Qiuda Yu

The flourishing blossom of deep learning has witnessed the rapid development of Chinese character recognition. However, it remains a great challenge that the characters for testing may have different distributions from those of the training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Haiyang Yu , Jingye Chen , Bin Li , Xiangyang Xue

Generally pre-training and long-time training computation are necessary for obtaining a good-performance text detector based on deep networks. In this paper, we present a new scene text detection network (called FANet) with a Fast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Yuzhong Zhao , Yuanqiang Cai , Weijia Wu , Weiqiang Wang

Learning an effective speaker representation is crucial for achieving reliable performance in speaker verification tasks. Speech signals are high-dimensional, long, and variable-length sequences containing diverse information at each…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-25 Wei Xia , John H. L. Hansen

Scene Text Recognition (STR) remains challenging due to real-world complexities, where decoupled visual-linguistic optimization in existing frameworks amplifies error propagation through cross-modal misalignment. Visual encoders exhibit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Lixu Sun , Nurmemet Yolwas , Wushour Silamu

Recent deep learning models have demonstrated strong capabilities for classifying text and non-text components in natural images. They extract a high-level feature computed globally from a whole image component (patch), where the cluttered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Tong He , Weilin Huang , Yu Qiao , Jian Yao