A Large-scale Dataset for Robust Complex Anime Scene Text Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07951v1
• Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2025 08:47:52 GMT
• Title: A Large-scale Dataset for Robust Complex Anime Scene Text Detection
• Authors: Ziyi Dong, Yurui Zhang, Changmao Li, Naomi Rue Golding, Qing Long,
• Abstract summary: Current text detection datasets primarily target natural or document scenes.<n>AnimeText is a large-scale dataset containing 735K images and 4.2M annotated text blocks.<n>It features hierarchical annotations and hard negative samples tailored for anime scenarios.
• Score: 5.31665838601315
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Current text detection datasets primarily target natural or document scenes, where text typically appear in regular font and shapes, monotonous colors, and orderly layouts. The text usually arranged along straight or curved lines. However, these characteristics differ significantly from anime scenes, where text is often diverse in style, irregularly arranged, and easily confused with complex visual elements such as symbols and decorative patterns. Text in anime scene also includes a large number of handwritten and stylized fonts. Motivated by this gap, we introduce AnimeText, a large-scale dataset containing 735K images and 4.2M annotated text blocks. It features hierarchical annotations and hard negative samples tailored for anime scenarios. %Cross-dataset evaluations using state-of-the-art methods demonstrate that models trained on AnimeText achieve superior performance in anime text detection tasks compared to existing datasets. To evaluate the robustness of AnimeText in complex anime scenes, we conducted cross-dataset benchmarking using state-of-the-art text detection methods. Experimental results demonstrate that models trained on AnimeText outperform those trained on existing datasets in anime scene text detection tasks. AnimeText on HuggingFace: https://huggingface.co/datasets/deepghs/AnimeText

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