Text Perceptron: Towards End-to-End Arbitrary-Shaped Text Spotting

Authors

  • Liang Qiao Hikvision Research Institute
  • Sanli Tang Hikvision Research Institute
  • Zhanzhan Cheng Zhejiang University & Hikvision Research Institute
  • Yunlu Xu Hikvision Research Institute
  • Yi Niu Hikvision Research Institute
  • Shiliang Pu Hikvision Research Institute
  • Fei Wu Zhejiang University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v34i07.6864

Abstract

Many approaches have recently been proposed to detect irregular scene text and achieved promising results. However, their localization results may not well satisfy the following text recognition part mainly because of two reasons: 1) recognizing arbitrary shaped text is still a challenging task, and 2) prevalent non-trainable pipeline strategies between text detection and text recognition will lead to suboptimal performances. To handle this incompatibility problem, in this paper we propose an end-to-end trainable text spotting approach named Text Perceptron. Concretely, Text Perceptron first employs an efficient segmentation-based text detector that learns the latent text reading order and boundary information. Then a novel Shape Transform Module (abbr. STM) is designed to transform the detected feature regions into regular morphologies without extra parameters. It unites text detection and the following recognition part into a whole framework, and helps the whole network achieve global optimization. Experiments show that our method achieves competitive performance on two standard text benchmarks, i.e., ICDAR 2013 and ICDAR 2015, and also obviously outperforms existing methods on irregular text benchmarks SCUT-CTW1500 and Total-Text.

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Published

2020-04-03

How to Cite

Qiao, L., Tang, S., Cheng, Z., Xu, Y., Niu, Y., Pu, S., & Wu, F. (2020). Text Perceptron: Towards End-to-End Arbitrary-Shaped Text Spotting. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 34(07), 11899-11907. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v34i07.6864

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AAAI Technical Track: Vision