A Scene Text Detector for Text with Arbitrary Shapes

Table 1

Experimental results on CTW1500.

Method	Ext.	CTW1500
		Precision	Recall	F-measure	Time
CTPN [3]	—	60.4	53.8	56.9	0.14
SegLink [44]	—	42.3	40.0	40.8	0.049
EAST [8]	—	78.7	49.1	60.4	0.076
TextSnake [11]	—	65.4	63.4	64.4	0.909
DB-ResNet-18 [43]	—	84.8	77.5	81.0	0.001
PSENet [12]		84.8	78.0	80.9	0.429
DB-ResNet-18 [43]	—	84.8	77.5	81.0	0.018
CRAFT [45]		87.6	79.9	83.6	0.116
DB-ResNet-50 [43]		86.9	80.2	83.4	0.045
TextCohesion (ours)		88.0	84.6	86.3	0.206

Ext. indicates external data.