Scene Text Detection with Feature Aggregation and Receptive Field Enhancement

We propose a scene text detection with feature aggregation and receptive field enhancement. It mainly improves the problem of wrong text segmentation. Specifically, a Feature Aggregation and Receptive Field Enhancement Module (FARE) adopts a ladder structure and constructs multi-scale feature aggregation with multiple branches to enhance the feature representation ability of texts of different scales. We add dilated convolution to expand the range of receptive field, which increases the detection of large-scale texts in low-level feature and obtains more accurate position information. Extensive experiments on the ICDAR 2015, ICDAR 2017 MLT, and CTW1500 show that the proposed method effectively improves the detection performance of the network. Notably, our proposed method has detected a precision of 87.4% on the curved text dataset CTW1500.