Chinese text-line detection from web videos with fully convolutional networks

*Correspondence: [email protected] †Equal contributors 1Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China 2Beijing Key Laboratory of Materials Science Knowledge Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China Abstract Background: In recent years, video becomes the dominant resource of information on the Web, where the text within video usually carries significant semantic information. Video text extraction and recognition plays an essential role in web multimedia understanding and retrieval for big visual data analytics and applications. To deal with challenging backgrounds and embedding noises, most conventional approaches usually tend to design sophisticated pre-processing and post-progressing steps before and after text detection. In this paper, we present a simple yet powerful pipeline that directly and uniformly detects Chinese text lines for embedded captions from web videos.