The Street View Text Dataset (SVT)

2014-01-13 (v. 1)
avg.: 4.2 by 20 users

Contact author

Kai Wang

Department of Comp. Sci. and Engr. University of California, San Diego

kaw006@cs.ucsd.edu

You can cite this dataset as: Kai Wang, The Street View Text Dataset (SVT) ,1,ID:SVT_1,URL:https://tc11.cvc.uab.es/datasets/SVT_1

Dataset Information

Dataset URL

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Keywords

OCR, Real Scene, Urban Scene, Scene Text, Word Spotting, Scene Text Recognition, Scene Text Detection, Scene Text Localization

Description

Example images from the Street View Text dataset.

Download link: http://www.iapr-tc11.org/mediawiki/index.php/The_Street_View_Text_Dataset

 

The Street View Text (SVT) dataset was harvested from Google Street View. Image text in this data exhibits high variability and often has low resolution. In dealing with outdoor street level imagery, we note two characteristics. (1) Image text often comes from business signage and (2) business names are easily available through geographic business searches. These factors make the SVT set uniquely suited for word spotting in the wild: given a street view image, the goal is to identify words from nearby businesses. More details about the data set can be found in our paper, Word Spotting in the Wild [1]. For our up-to-date benchmarks on this data, see our paper, End-to-end Scene Text Recognition [2].

This dataset only has word-level annotations (no character bounding boxes) and should be used for

  • cropped lexicon-driven word recognition and
  • full image lexicon-driven word detection and recognition.

If you need character training data then you should look into the Chars74K and the ICDAR2003 andICDAR2005 datasets.

References

[1] Kai Wang, Boris Babenko and Serge Belongie End-to-end Scene Text Recognition ICCV 2011, Barcelona, Spain

[2] Kai Wang and Serge Belongie Word Spotting in the Wild ECCV 2010, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

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