Deep learning for scene text detection and recognition

Scene text detection and recognition is a universal text recognition technology, which has become a hot research topic in the field of computer vision and document analysis in recent years. It is widely applied in geographical positioning, license plate recognition, and driverless applications. Compared to traditional document text detection and recognition, scene text varies more dramatically in font, color, scale, layout, and background. Owing to its excellent performance, deep learning has been widely adopted in this field. In this paper, we mainly review our representative studies based on deep learning in this field and describe the future research trends in this field.