Research Article

Texts as Lines: Text Detection with Weak Supervision

Table 2

Experimental results for CTW1500. “PT”refers to the model pretrained with one epoch on SynthText. “Ext.” indicates external data. “FM” refers to the model trained with full mask for strong-supervised learning.

MethodExt.CTW1500
PrecisionRecallF-measureFPS

CTPN [42]60.453.856.97.14
SegLink [40]42.340.040.8
EAST [13]78.749.160.4
CTD + TLOC [43]77.469.873.4
PSENet [16]80.675.678.03.9
TextSnake [4]67.985.375.6
[41]80.280.180.110
TextField [29]79.883.081.4
PSENet [16]84.879.782.23.9
CRAFT [15]88.278.282.98.6
FM (ours)PT86.280.583.29.0
TAS (ours)PT83.880.882.39.2