Survey on Natural Scene Text Recognition Methods of Deep Learning

Abstract

Natural scene text recognition holds significant value in both academic research and practical applications, making it one of the research hotspots in the field of computer vision. However, the recognition process faces challenges such as diverse text styles and complex background environments, leading to unsatisfactory efficiency and accuracy. Traditional text recognition methods based on manually designed features have limited representation capabilities, which are insufficient for effectively handling complex tasks in natural scene text recognition. In recent years, significant progress has been made in natural scene text recognition by adopting deep learning methods. This paper systematically reviews the recent research work in this area. Firstly, the natural scene text recognition methods are categorized into segmentation-based and non-segmentation-based approaches based on character segmentation required or not. The non-segmentation-based methods are further subdivided according to their technical implementation characteristics, and the working principles of the most representative methods in each category are described. Next, commonly used datasets and evaluation metrics are introduced, and the performance of various methods is compared on these datasets. The advantages and limitations of different approaches are discussed from multiple perspectives. Finally, the shortcomings and challenges are given, and the future development trends are also put forward.

Keywords

• text recognition; deep learning; natural scene