Authors: Shangbang Long, Siyang Qin, Dmitry Panteleev, Alessandro Bissacco, Yasuhisa Fujii, Michalis Raptis

Affiliation: Google Research

Description: This official submission accompanies our paper: Towards End-to-End Unified Scene Text Detection and Layout Analysis. Note that the unified detector model produces line-level masks and a line-wise affinity matrix that groups lines into paragraphs. It is unable to produce word-level detection directly. For evaluation purpose solely, we use heuristics to extract word masks from line masks. Please refer to the source code (https://github.com/tensorflow/models/tree/master/official/projects/unified_detector#demo-on-single-images) to learn how this is performed.