ICDAR2017野外中文文本阅读比赛（RCTW-17）

Aug, 2017

ICDAR2017野外中文文本阅读比赛（RCTW-17）

ICDAR2017 Competition on Reading Chinese Text in the Wild (RCTW-17)

Baoguang Shi, Cong Yao, Minghui Liao, Mingkun Yang, Pei Xu...

TL;DRRCTW is a Chinese text reading competition featuring a large-scale dataset with 12,263 annotated images and two tasks, text localization and end-to-end recognition, which provides a research opportunity for Chinese text reading in natural images.

Abstract

Chinese is the most widely used language in the world. Algorithms that read Chinese text in natural images facilitate applications of various kinds. Despite the large potential value, datasets and →