A Novel Dataset and A Text-Specific Refinement Approach
Rethinking Text Segmentation
This is the repo to host the dataset TextSeg and code for TexRNet from the following paper:
Xingqian Xu, Zhifei Zhang, Zhaowen Wang, Brian Price, Zhonghao Wang and Humphrey Shi, Rethinking Text Segmentation: A Novel Dataset and A Text-Specific Refinement Approach, ArXiv Link
Note:
[2021.04.21] So far, our dataset is partially released with images and semantic labels. Since many people may request the dataset for OCR or non-segmentation tasks, please stay tuned, and we will release the dataset in full ASAP.
[2021.06.18] Our dataset is now fully released. To download the data, please send a request email to [email protected] and tell us which school you are affiliated with. Please be aware the released dataset is version 2, and the annotations are