Publication
Visual re-ranking with natural language understanding for text spotting
Conference Article
Conference
Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV)
Edition
14th
Pages
68-82
Doc link
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20893-6_5
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Abstract
Many scene text recognition approaches are based on purely visual information and ignore the semantic relation between scene and text. In this paper, we tackle this problem from natural language processing perspective to fill the gap between language and vision. We propose a post processing approach to improve scene text recognition accuracy by using occurrence probabilities of words (unigram language model), and the semantic correlation between scene and text. For this, we initially rely on an off-the-shelf deep neural network, already trained with large amount of data, which provides a series of text hypotheses per input image. These hypotheses are then re-ranked using word frequencies and semantic relatedness with objects or scenes in the image. As a result of this combination, the performance of the original network is boosted with almost no additional cost. We validate our approach on ICDAR'17 dataset.
Categories
computer vision.
Scientific reference
A. Sabir, F. Moreno-Noguer and L. Padró. Visual re-ranking with natural language understanding for text spotting, 14th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, 2018, Perth, in Computer Vision – ACCV 2018, Vol 11363 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 68-82, 2019, Springer.
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