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STV2k: A New Benchmark for Scene Text Detection and Recognition

There are a wide range of applications for scene text detection and recognition due to the increasing popularity of portable digital devices. However, large-scale evaluation benchmark with multilingual and multi-oriented texts is still slow to occur to facilitate the research on scene text detection and recognition. In this paper, a large-scale and well-annotated scene text dataset, namely STV2k, is presented, which can be used for scene text detection as well as scene text recognition. Since all the images are collected from streets by smart phone, the textual scenes are rich of variations in layouts, color, fonts and backgrounds. Two state-of-the-art algorithms for scene text recognition are tested on this newly built dataset. The preliminary experiments demonstrate how challenging the scene text recognition is in real scenario.