DRRG

Deep relational reasoning graph network for arbitrary shape text detection

Abstract

Arbitrary shape text detection is a challenging task due to the high variety and complexity of scenes texts. In this paper, we propose a novel unified relational reasoning graph network for arbitrary shape text detection. In our method, an innovative local graph bridges a text proposal model via Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and a deep relational reasoning network via Graph Convolutional Network (GCN), making our network end-to-end trainable. To be concrete, every text instance will be divided into a series of small rectangular components, and the geometry attributes (e.g., height, width, and orientation) of the small components will be estimated by our text proposal model. Given the geometry attributes, the local graph construction model can roughly establish linkages between different text components. For further reasoning and deducing the likelihood of linkages between the component and its neighbors, we adopt a graph-based network to perform deep relational reasoning on local graphs. Experiments on public available datasets demonstrate the state-of-the-art performance of our method.

Results and models

CTW1500

Method	Pretrained Model	Training set	Test set	#epochs	Test size	Recall	Precision	Hmean	Download
DRRG	ImageNet	CTW1500 Train	CTW1500 Test	1200	640	0.822 (0.791)	0.858 (0.862)	0.840 (0.825)	model \ log

We've upgraded our IoU backend from `Polygon3` to `shapely`. There are some performance differences for some models due to the backends' different logics to handle invalid polygons (more info [here](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr/issues/465)). **New evaluation result is presented in brackets** and new logs will be uploaded soon.

Citation

@article{zhang2020drrg,
  title={Deep relational reasoning graph network for arbitrary shape text detection},
  author={Zhang, Shi-Xue and Zhu, Xiaobin and Hou, Jie-Bo and Liu, Chang and Yang, Chun and Wang, Hongfa and Yin, Xu-Cheng},
  booktitle={CVPR},
  pages={9699-9708},
  year={2020}
}