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Scene text image super-resolution (STISR) aims to improve the resolution and visual quality of low-resolution (LR) scene text images, and consequently boost the performance of text recognition. However, most of existing STISR methods regard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Jianqi Ma , Shi Guo , Lei Zhang

Scene text image super-resolution (STISR) aims to simultaneously increase the resolution and legibility of the text images, and the resulting images will significantly affect the performance of downstream tasks. Although numerous progress…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Shipeng Zhu , Zuoyan Zhao , Pengfei Fang , Hui Xue

Scene Text Image Super-resolution (STISR) has recently achieved great success as a preprocessing method for scene text recognition. STISR aims to transform blurred and noisy low-resolution (LR) text images in real-world settings into clear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Chihiro Noguchi , Shun Fukuda , Masao Yamanaka

Scene text image super-resolution (STISR) has been regarded as an important pre-processing task for text recognition from low-resolution scene text images. Most recent approaches use the recognizer's feedback as clues to guide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Minyi Zhao , Miao Wang , Fan Bai , Bingjia Li , Jie Wang , Shuigeng Zhou

Scene Text Image Super-Resolution (STISR) aims to enhance the resolution and legibility of text within low-resolution (LR) images, consequently elevating recognition accuracy in Scene Text Recognition (STR). Previous methods predominantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Yuxuan Zhou , Liangcai Gao , Zhi Tang , Baole Wei

Scene text image super-resolution (STISR) aims at simultaneously increasing the resolution and readability of low-resolution scene text images, thus boosting the performance of the downstream recognition task. Two factors in scene text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Zuoyan Zhao , Hui Xue , Pengfei Fang , Shipeng Zhu

Scene text recognition has witnessed rapid development with the advance of convolutional neural networks. Nonetheless, most of the previous methods may not work well in recognizing text with low resolution which is often seen in natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Wenjia Wang , Enze Xie , Peize Sun , Wenhai Wang , Lixun Tian , Chunhua Shen , Ping Luo

Low-resolution text images are often seen in natural scenes such as documents captured by mobile phones. Recognizing low-resolution text images is challenging because they lose detailed content information, leading to poor recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Wenjia Wang , Enze Xie , Xuebo Liu , Wenhai Wang , Ding Liang , Chunhua Shen , Xiang Bai

Text image super-resolution is a unique and important task to enhance readability of text images to humans. It is widely used as pre-processing in scene text recognition. However, due to the complex degradation in natural scenes, recovering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Rui Qin , Bin Wang , Yu-Wing Tai

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

While recent advancements in Image Super-Resolution (SR) using diffusion models have shown promise in improving overall image quality, their application to scene text images has revealed limitations. These models often struggle with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Keren Ye , Ignacio Garcia Dorado , Michalis Raptis , Mauricio Delbracio , Irene Zhu , Peyman Milanfar , Hossein Talebi

Image super-resolution (SR) methods typically model degradation to improve reconstruction accuracy in complex and unknown degradation scenarios. However, extracting degradation information from low-resolution images is challenging, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Zheng Chen , Yulun Zhang , Jinjin Gu , Xin Yuan , Linghe Kong , Guihai Chen , Xiaokang Yang

While scene text image super-resolution (STISR) has yielded remarkable improvements in accurately recognizing scene text, prior methodologies have placed excessive emphasis on optimizing performance, rather than paying due attention to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Minghao Fu , Xin Man , Yihan Xu , Jie Shao

Scene text recognition (STR) from high-resolution (HR) images has been significantly successful, however text reading on low-resolution (LR) images is still challenging due to insufficient visual information. Therefore, recently many scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Minyi Zhao , Yang Wang , Jihong Guan , Shuigeng Zhou

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

Scene text image super-resolution (STISR), aiming to improve image quality while boosting downstream scene text recognition accuracy, has recently achieved great success. However, most existing methods treat the foreground (character…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Hang Guo , Tao Dai , Guanghao Meng , Shu-Tao Xia

Text image super-resolution is a challenging yet open research problem in the computer vision community. In particular, low-resolution images hamper the performance of typical optical character recognition (OCR) systems. In this article, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-09 Chao Dong , Ximei Zhu , Yubin Deng , Chen Change Loy , Yu Qiao

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

Current image super-resolution methods show strong performance on natural images but distort text, creating a fundamental trade-off between image quality and textual readability. To address this, we introduce TIGER (Text-Image Guided…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Minxing Luo , Linlong Fan , Wang Qiushi , Ge Wu , Yiyan Luo , Yuhang Yu , Jinwei Chen , Yaxing Wang , Qingnan Fan , Jian Yang

Recent text-to-image generation methods provide a simple yet exciting conversion capability between text and image domains. While these methods have incrementally improved the generated image fidelity and text relevancy, several pivotal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Oran Gafni , Adam Polyak , Oron Ashual , Shelly Sheynin , Devi Parikh , Yaniv Taigman
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