Character recognition competition for street view shop signs

Jingqun Tang; Weidong Du; Bin Wang; Wenyang Zhou; Shuqi Mei; Tao Xue; Xing Xu; Hai Zhang

doi:10.1093/nsr/nwad141

Character recognition competition for street view shop signs

Natl Sci Rev. 2023 May 19;10(6):nwad141. doi: 10.1093/nsr/nwad141. eCollection 2023 Jun.

Authors

Jingqun Tang¹, Weidong Du², Bin Wang³, Wenyang Zhou⁴, Shuqi Mei⁵, Tao Xue⁵, Xing Xu^{6

7}, Hai Zhang^{8

7}

Affiliations

¹ Shanghai ByteDance Technology Co., Ltd, China.
² School of Control Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, China.
³ School of Computer Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, China.
⁴ School of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua Univeristy, China.
⁵ Shenzhen Tencent Technology Co., Ltd, China.
⁶ School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China.
⁷ Pazhou Laboratory (Huangpu), China.
⁸ School of Mathematics, Northwest University, China.

Abstract

This paper presents the inaugural character recognition competition for street view shop signs, including the associated tasks, datasets, participating teams, the winning team's solution, and justification for the award.