Mask R-CNN with Pyramid Attention Network for Scene Text Detection

22 Nov 2018  ·  Zhida Huang, Zhuoyao Zhong, Lei Sun, Qiang Huo ·

In this paper, we present a new Mask R-CNN based text detection approach which can robustly detect multi-oriented and curved text from natural scene images in a unified manner. To enhance the feature representation ability of Mask R-CNN for text detection tasks, we propose to use the Pyramid Attention Network (PAN) as a new backbone network of Mask R-CNN. Experiments demonstrate that PAN can suppress false alarms caused by text-like backgrounds more effectively. Our proposed approach has achieved superior performance on both multi-oriented (ICDAR-2015, ICDAR-2017 MLT) and curved (SCUT-CTW1500) text detection benchmark tasks by only using single-scale and single-model testing.

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Task Dataset Model Metric Name Metric Value Global Rank Result Benchmark
Scene Text Detection ICDAR 2015 PAN F-Measure 85.9 # 22
Precision 90.8 # 13
Recall 81.5 # 26
Scene Text Detection ICDAR 2017 MLT PAN Precision 80 # 9
Recall 69.8 # 7
F-Measure 74.3% # 5
Scene Text Detection SCUT-CTW1500 PAN F-Measure 85 # 6
Precision 86.8 # 7
Recall 83.2 # 7
FPS 65.2 # 5

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