SegHist: A General Segmentation-based Framework for Chinese Historical Document Text Line Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.15485v3
• Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2024 07:41:50 GMT
• Title: SegHist: A General Segmentation-based Framework for Chinese Historical Document Text Line Detection
• Authors: Xingjian Hu, Baole Wei, Liangcai Gao, Jun Wang,
• Abstract summary: Text line detection is a key task in historical document analysis. We propose a general framework for historical document text detection (SegHist) Integrating the SegHist framework with the commonly used method DB++, we develop DB-SegHist.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Text line detection is a key task in historical document analysis facing many challenges of arbitrary-shaped text lines, dense texts, and text lines with high aspect ratios, etc. In this paper, we propose a general framework for historical document text detection (SegHist), enabling existing segmentation-based text detection methods to effectively address the challenges, especially text lines with high aspect ratios. Integrating the SegHist framework with the commonly used method DB++, we develop DB-SegHist. This approach achieves SOTA on the CHDAC, MTHv2, and competitive results on HDRC datasets, with a significant improvement of 1.19% on the most challenging CHDAC dataset which features more text lines with high aspect ratios. Moreover, our method attains SOTA on rotated MTHv2 and rotated HDRC, demonstrating its rotational robustness. The code is available at https://github.com/LumionHXJ/SegHist.

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