The Equipment Nameplate Dataset for Scene Text Detection and Recognition In this paper, we introduce the Equipment Nameplate Dataset, a large dataset for scene text detection and recognition. Natural images in this dataset are taken in the wild and thus this dataset includes various intraclass inconsistency such as ill illumination conditions and partly occluded, which makes our dataset more challenging than other datasets. In order to make people train detection and recognition model separately, we annotate our dataset not only word instance, but also text region by using rectangle bounding boxes. Some detailed statistics information about our dataset will be given so that people can use them to analyse and develop their own models. Moreover, we use our dataset to test some famous detection and recognition models and present the corresponding results in order to make researcher compare them with their own models. Dataset will be publicly available on the website.

Robust Text Line Detection in Equipment Nameplate Images Scene text detection for equipment nameplates in the wild is important for equipment inspection robot since it enables inspection robot to take specific actions for different equipmentxe2x80x99s. Although text detection in images has achieved great progress in recent years, the detection for equipment nameplates faces several challenges such as extreme illumination and distortion which significantly decrease the detection performance. In this paper, we propose a deep text detection model Robust Text Line Detection (RTLD) for locating word level text instances in equipment cards. Specifically, the proposed model first employs a corner detection module to determine the four corner points of each nameplate, and then a carefully designed image transformed module transforms the irregular nameplate region into a rectangular region. Finally, text detection module is introduced to locate every word level text instance in the transformed images. We conduct extensive experiments to examine our proposed methods on real equipment nameplate images. Our model achieves 91 . 2% precision and 92 . 6% recall on Equipment Nameplate Dataset. The experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our models.