Scene text detection and document layout analysis have long been treated as
two separate tasks in different image domains. In this paper, we bring them
together and introduce the task of unified scene text detection and layout
analysis. The first hierarchical scene text dataset is introduced to enable
this novel research task. We also propose a novel method that is able to
simultaneously detect scene text and form text clusters in a unified way.
Comprehensive experiments show that our unified model achieves better
performance than multiple well-designed baseline methods. Additionally, this
model achieves state-of-the-art results on multiple scene text detection
datasets without the need of complex post-processing. Dataset and code:
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本论文提出了统一场景文本检测和布局分析任务，并介绍了一种能够同时检测场景文本和形成文本聚类的方法以及一个首个分层场景文本数据集，全面实验证明了所提出的统一模型在多个基线方法上实现了更好的性能，此外，该模型还在多个场景文本检测数据集上实现了最先进的结果，无需复杂的后处理。