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Representation and Correlation Enhanced Encoder-Decoder Framework for Scene Text Recognition

13 Jun 2021arXiv:2106.06960archive 2025-07-28

Mengmeng Cui, Wei Wang, Jinjin Zhang, Liang Wang

Attention-based encoder-decoder framework is widely used in the scene text recognition task. However, for the current state-of-the-art(SOTA) methods, there is room for improvement in terms of the efficient usage of local visual and global context information of the input text image, as well as the robust correlation between the scene processing module(encoder) and the text processing module(decoder). In this paper, we propose a Representation and Correlation Enhanced Encoder-Decoder Framework(RCEED) to address these deficiencies and break performance bottleneck. In the encoder module, local visual feature, global context feature, and position information are aligned and fused to generate a small-size comprehensive feature map. In the decoder module, two methods are utilized to enhance the correlation between scene and text feature space. 1) The decoder initialization is guided by the holistic feature and global glimpse vector exported from the encoder. 2) The feature enriched glimpse vector produced by the Multi-Head General Attention is used to assist the RNN iteration and the character prediction at each time step. Meanwhile, we also design a Layernorm-Dropout LSTM cell to improve model's generalization towards changeable texts. Extensive experiments on the benchmarks demonstrate the advantageous performance of RCEED in scene text recognition tasks, especially the irregular ones.

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DecoderScene Text Recognition

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Scene Text Recognition ICDAR2013 RCEED Accuracy 94.7 #23 of 38 Archive leaderboard report
Scene Text Recognition ICDAR2015 RCEED Accuracy 82.2 #15 of 27 Archive leaderboard report
Scene Text Recognition SVT RCEED Accuracy 91.8 #21 of 37 Archive leaderboard report

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LSTMSigmoid ActivationTanh Activation

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