Total-Text-Dataset
Released on October 27, 2017
Description
In order to facilitate a new text detection research, we introduce the Total-Text dataset (ICDAR2017 paper) (presentation slides), which is more comprehensive than the existing text datasets. The Total-Text consists of 1555 images with more than 3 different text orientations: Horizontal, Multi-Oriented, and Curved, one of a kind.
Citation
If you find this dataset useful for your research, please cite
@inproceedings{CK2017,
author = {Chee Kheng Ch’ng and
Chee Seng Chan},
title = {Total-Text: A Comprehensive Dataset for Scene Text Detection and Recognition},
booktitle = {14th IAPR International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition {ICDAR}},
pages = {},
year = {2017},
doi = {},
}
Feedback
Suggestions and opinions of this dataset (both positive and negative) are greatly welcome. Please contact the authors by sending email to
chngcheekheng at gmail.comor cs.chan at um.edu.my.
Copyright
The Total-Text database is free to the academic community for research purpose usage only.
Copyright 2018, Multimedia Signal Processing Lab, University of Malaya.