AON: Towards Arbitrarily-Oriented Text Recognition

Understand

Recognizing text from natural images is a hot research topic in computer vision due to its various applications.

• Despite the enduring research of several decades on optical character recognition (OCR), recognizing texts from natural images is still a challenging task.
• This is because scene texts are often in irregular (e.g.
• curved, arbitrarily-oriented or seriously distorted) arrangements, which have not yet been well addressed in the literature.