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TPSNet: Reverse Thinking of Thin Plate Splines for Arbitrary Shape Scene Text Representation
Wei Wang, Yu Zhou, Jiahao Lv, Dayan Wu, Guoqing Zhao, Ning Jiang, Weiping Wang
The research focus of scene text detection and recognition has shifted to arbitrary shape text in recent years, where the text shape representation is a fundamental problem. An ideal representation should be compact, complete, efficient, and reusable for subsequent recognition in our opinion. However, previous representations have flaws in one or more aspects. Thin-Plate-Spline (TPS) transformation has achieved great success in scene text recognition. Inspired by this, we reversely think of its usage and sophisticatedly take TPS as an exquisite representation for arbitrary shape text representation. The TPS representation is compact, complete, and efficient. With the predicted TPS parameters, the detected text region can be directly rectified to a near-horizontal one to assist the subsequent recognition. To further exploit the potential of the TPS representation, the Border Alignment Loss is proposed. Based on these designs, we implement the text detector TPSNet, which can be extended to a text spotter conveniently. Extensive evaluation and ablation of several public benchmarks demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed method for text representation and spotting. Particularly, TPSNet achieves the detection F-Measure improvement of 4.4\% (78.4\% vs. 74.0\%) on Art dataset and the end-to-end spotting F-Measure improvement of 5.0\% (78.5\% vs. 73.5\%) on Total-Text, which are large margins with no bells and whistles.
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| Task | Dataset | Model | Metric | Value | Rank at snapshot | Leaderboard | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text Spotting | SCUT-CTW1500 | TPSNet | F-Measure (%) - Full Lexicon | 79.2 | #5 of 11 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Text Spotting | SCUT-CTW1500 | TPSNet | F-measure (%) - No Lexicon | 59.7 | #5 of 11 | Archive leaderboard | report |
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