Detecting and Removing Text in the Wild

Scene text removal is a challenging task that aims to erase wild text regions that include text strokes and their ambiguous boundaries, such as embossing, shade, or flare. The challenging issues raised in the wild are not completely addressed by the existing methods. To address these issues, we propose a new loss function for blending two tasks in a new network structure that depicts wild text regions in a soft mask and selectively inpaints them...