Class-Aware Mask-guided feature refinement for scene text recognition

Mingkun Yang, Biao Yang, Minghui Liao, Yingying Zhu, Xiang Bai

Abstract: Highlights•Employing prototypes for feature refinement via guiding the feature learning process.•A class-aware canonical glyph segmentation module to improves feature discrimination.•A mask-guided feature alignment and fusion module to enhance the text features.•The proposed method gets state-of-the-art results on text recognition benchmarks.