@inproceedings{760bf363cc7e4eb7bc34fa8e2be0f163,
title = "TextContourNet: A flexible and effective framework for improving scene text detection architecture with a multi-task cascade",
abstract = "We study the problem of extracting text instance contour information from images and use it to assist scene text detection. We propose a novel and effective framework for this and experimentally demonstrate that: (1) A CNN that can be effectively used to extract instance-level text contour from natural images. (2) The extracted contour information can be used for better scene text detection. We propose two ways for learning the contour task together with the scene text detection: (1) as an auxiliary task and (2) as multi-task cascade. Extensive experiments with different benchmark datasets demonstrate that both designs improve the performance of a state-of-the-art scene text detector and that a multi-task cascade design achieves the best performance.",
author = "Dafang He and Xiao Yang and Daniel Kifer and Giles, {C. Lee}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 IEEE.; 19th IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, WACV 2019 ; Conference date: 07-01-2019 Through 11-01-2019",
year = "2019",
month = mar,
day = "4",
doi = "10.1109/WACV.2019.00077",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings - 2019 IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, WACV 2019",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "676--685",
booktitle = "Proceedings - 2019 IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, WACV 2019",
address = "United States",
}