ICDAR2017 Robust Reading Challenge on COCO-Text

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  • Raul Gomez
  • Baoguang Shi
  • Lluis Gomez
  • Lukas Numann
  • Andreas Veit
  • Jiri Matas
  • Belongie, Serge
  • Dismosthenis Karatzas

This report presents the final results of the ICDAR 2017 Robust Reading Challenge on COCO-Text. A challenge on scene text detection and recognition based on the largest real scene text dataset currently available: the COCO-Text dataset. The competition is structured around three tasks: Text Localization, Cropped Word Recognition and End-To-End Recognition. The competition received a total of 27 submissions over the different opened tasks. This report describes the datasets and the ground truth, details the performance evaluation protocols used and presents the final results along with a brief summary of the participating methods.

Original languageEnglish
JournalProceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR
Pages (from-to)1435-1443
Number of pages9
ISSN1520-5363
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 25 Jan 2018
Externally publishedYes
Event14th IAPR International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 2017 - Kyoto, Japan
Duration: 9 Nov 201715 Nov 2017

Conference

Conference14th IAPR International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 2017
CountryJapan
CityKyoto
Period09/11/201715/11/2017
Sponsoret al., FxPaL, Glory, Hitachi, Media Drive, Sansan

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
*This work was supported by the Spanish project TIN2014-52072-P and the CERCA programme/Generalitat de Catalunya 1 R. Gomez is with the Computer Vision Center, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona and Eurecat. 2 B. Shi is with the School of EIC, Huazhong University of Science and Technology 3,8 L. Gomez and D. Karatzas are with the Computer Vision Center, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. 4,6 L. Neumann and J. Matas are with the Center for Machine Perception, Czech Technical University. 5,7 A. Veit and S.Belongie are with the Cornell University and Cornell Tech.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.

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