Yiwei Liu¹, Yingnan Zhao^1,*, Yi Chen¹, Zheng Hu¹, Min Xia²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.79, No.1, pp. 909-926, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.047901

Abstract Scene text detection is an important task in computer vision. In this paper, we present YOLOv5 Scene Text (YOLOv5ST), an optimized architecture based on YOLOv5 v6.0 tailored for fast scene text detection. Our primary goal is to enhance inference speed without sacrificing significant detection accuracy, thereby enabling robust performance on resource-constrained devices like drones, closed-circuit television cameras, and other embedded systems. To achieve this, we propose key modifications to the network architecture to lighten the original backbone and improve feature aggregation, including replacing standard convolution with depth-wise convolution, adopting the C2 sequence module in place of C3, employing Spatial Pyramid… More >

Junjie Qu, Jin Liu^*, Chao Yu

Journal of Information Hiding and Privacy Protection, Vol.3, No.2, pp. 83-89, 2021, DOI:10.32604/jihpp.2021.017181

Abstract Scene text detection is an important step in the scene text reading system. There are still two problems during the existing text detection methods: (1) The small receptive of the convolutional layer in text detection is not sufficiently sensitive to the target area in the image; (2) The deep receptive of the convolutional layer in text detection lose a lot of spatial feature information. Therefore, detecting scene text remains a challenging issue. In this work, we design an effective text detector named Adaptive Multi-Scale HyperNet (AMSHN) to improve texts detection performance. Specifically, AMSHN enhances the sensitivity of target semantics in… More >

Shaozhang Niu^{1, *}, Xiangxiang Li¹, Maosen Wang¹, Yueying Li²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.65, No.3, pp. 2233-2245, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.09471

Abstract In recent years, images have played a more and more important role in our daily life and social communication. To some extent, the textual information contained in the pictures is an important factor in understanding the content of the scenes themselves. The more accurate the text detection of the natural scenes is, the more accurate our semantic understanding of the images will be. Thus, scene text detection has also become the hot spot in the domain of computer vision. In this paper, we have presented a modified text detection network which is based on further research and improvement of Connectionist… More >

Xueming Qiao¹, Yingxue Xia¹, Weiyi Zhu², Dongjie Zhu^{3, *}, Liang Kong¹, Chunxu Lin³, Zhenhao Guo³, Yiheng Sun³

Journal on Artificial Intelligence, Vol.2, No.1, pp. 29-37, 2020, DOI:10.32604/jai.2020.09955

Abstract Natural scene recognition has important significance and value in the fields of image retrieval, autonomous navigation, human-computer interaction and industrial automation. Firstly, the natural scene image non-text content takes up relatively high proportion; secondly, the natural scene images have a cluttered background and complex lighting conditions, angle, font and color. Therefore, how to extract text extreme regions efficiently from complex and varied natural scene images plays an important role in natural scene image text recognition. In this paper, a Text extremum region Extraction algorithm based on Joint-Channels (TEJC) is proposed. On the one hand, it can solve the problem that… More >