Awesome Scene Text Removal

A comprehensive list of awesome Scene Text Removal methods based on deep learning.

Table of contents

• Papers
• Datasets

Papers

Year	Venue	Title	Repo
2017	IEEE	Scene Text Eraser
2018	BMVC	Automatic Semantic Content Removal by Learning to Neglect
2019	AAAI	EnsNet: Ensconce Text in the Wild	Code
2019	AAAI	MTRNet: A Generic Scene Text Eraser	Code
2020	CVIU	One-stage-Mask-based-Scene-Text-Eraser	Code
2020	IEEE	EraseNet: End-to-End Text Removal in the Wild	Code
2020	WACV	Erasing Scene Text with Weak Supervision
2021	IEEE	Stroke-Based Scene Text Erasing Using Synthetic Data for Training	Code
2021	TCSVT	Text Region Conditional Generative Adversarial Network for Text Concealment in the Wild
2021	ICIP	Two-Stage Seamless Text Erasing On Real-World Scene Images
2022	ECCV	The Surprisingly Straightforward Scene Text Removal Method With Gated Attention and Region of Interest Generation: A Comprehensive Prominent Model Analysis	Code
2022	IEEE	Progressive Scene Text Erasing with Self-Supervision
2022	CVM	Scene text removal via cascaded text stroke detection and erasing [arxiv]	Code
2022	ACM MM	Self-supervised text erasing with controllable image synthesis
2022	ECCV	Don't Forget Me: Accurate Background Recovery for Text Removal via Modeling Local-Global Context	Code
2022	ACCV	Multi-branch network with ensemble learning for text removal in the wild
2023	BMVC	Selective Scene Text Removal	Code
2023	CVIU	Progressive scene text erasing with self-supervision
2023	WACV	Modeling Stroke Mask for End-to-End Text Erasing
2023	PR	Feature erasing and transferring network for scene text removal	Code
2023	WACV	Modeling stroke mask for end-to-end text erasing
2023	TIP	What is the Real Need for Scene Text Removal? Exploring the Background Integrity and Erasure Exhaustivity Properties	Code
2024	AAAI	ViTEraser: Harnessing the Power of Vision Transformers for Scene Text Removal with SegMIM Pretraining	Code
2024	IEEE	DeepEraser: Deep Iterative Context Mining for Generic Text Eraser	Code
2024	ICML	UPOCR: Towards Unified Pixel-Level OCR Interface	Code

Datasets

Year	Venue	Title	Type	Link
2019	IEEE	SCUT-Syn	Syn	Dataset
2020	IEEE	SCUT-EnsText	Real	Dataset
2016	CVPR	Oxford Synthetic text(SynthText)	Syn	Dataset

Thanks TO

https://github.com/shuyansy/Survey-of-Visual-Text-Processing?tab=readme-ov-file#Scene-Text-Removal