Research Article

Texts as Lines: Text Detection with Weak Supervision

Table 5

Experimental results for ICDAR2015. “PT”refers to the model pretrained on SynthText for one epoch. “Ext.” indicates using external data.

MethodExt.ICDAR15
PrecisionRecallF-measureFPS

CTPN [42]74.251.660.97.1
EAST [13]83.673.578.26.5
RRPN [20]82.073.077.0
PSENet [16]81.479.680.51.6
PixelLink [28]82.981.782.37.3
SegLink [40]73.176.875.0
SSTD [46]80.273.976.97.7
WordSup [35]79.377.078.2
RRD [26]85.679.082.26.5
MCN [45]72.080.076.0
TextField [29]80.584.382.4
TextSnake [4]84.980.482.61.1
PAN [47]84.081.982.926.1
PSENet [16]86.984.585.71.6
CRAFT [15]89.884.386.98.6
SPCNet [14]88.785.887.2
TAS (ours)PT81.777.179.48.5