  Semantic representation is of great benefit to the video text tracking(VTT)
task that requires simultaneously classifying, detecting, and tracking texts in
the video. Most existing approaches tackle this task by appearance similarity
in continuous frames, while ignoring the abundant semantic features. In this
paper, we explore to robustly track video text with contrastive learning of
semantic and visual representations. Correspondingly, we present an end-to-end
video text tracker with Semantic and Visual Representations(SVRep), which
detects and tracks texts by exploiting the visual and semantic relationships
between different texts in a video sequence. Besides, with a light-weight
architecture, SVRep achieves state-of-the-art performance while maintaining
competitive inference speed. Specifically, with a backbone of ResNet-18, SVRep
achieves an ${\rm ID_{F1}}$ of $\textbf{65.9\%}$, running at $\textbf{16.7}$
FPS, on the ICDAR2015(video) dataset with $\textbf{8.6\%}$ improvement than the
previous state-of-the-art methods.

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition;Artificial Intelligence