Back-Tracking from Clarity: Self-Learning to See Text from Afar

arXiv:2609.32477 · cs.CV · Submitted 2026-09-26 · Read on arXiv

cs.CV

Submitted: 2026-09-26

Updated: 2026-09-26

Code: https://github.com/trid2912/BackTrackingText

Terminology

• Core — 28× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
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• Pseudo-labels — 11× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
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• Generalization — 2× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Hybrid Approach — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Knowledge Distillation — 2× in this paper · explained in 11 episodes
• Self-Supervised Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
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• Ablation Studies — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
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• Semi-supervised Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Text Detection & Recognition in the Wild for Robot Localization
• A Bilingual, OpenWorld Video Text Dataset and End-to-end Video Text Spotter with Transformer
• ICDAR 2015 Text Reading in the Wild Competition

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