Scene Text Synthesis for Efficient and Effective Deep Network Training

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/1901.09193v3
• Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2023 12:35:49 GMT
• Title: Scene Text Synthesis for Efficient and Effective Deep Network Training
• Authors: Changgong Zhang, Fangneng Zhan, Hongyuan Zhu, Shijian Lu
• Abstract summary: We develop an innovative image synthesis technique that composes annotated training images by embedding foreground objects of interest into background images. The proposed technique consists of two key components that in principle boost the usefulness of the synthesized images in deep network training. Experiments over a number of public datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed image synthesis technique.
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• Abstract: A large amount of annotated training images is critical for training accurate and robust deep network models but the collection of a large amount of annotated training images is often time-consuming and costly. Image synthesis alleviates this constraint by generating annotated training images automatically by machines which has attracted increasing interest in the recent deep learning research. We develop an innovative image synthesis technique that composes annotated training images by realistically embedding foreground objects of interest (OOI) into background images. The proposed technique consists of two key components that in principle boost the usefulness of the synthesized images in deep network training. The first is context-aware semantic coherence which ensures that the OOI are placed around semantically coherent regions within the background image. The second is harmonious appearance adaptation which ensures that the embedded OOI are agreeable to the surrounding background from both geometry alignment and appearance realism. The proposed technique has been evaluated over two related but very different computer vision challenges, namely, scene text detection and scene text recognition. Experiments over a number of public datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed image synthesis technique - the use of our synthesized images in deep network training is capable of achieving similar or even better scene text detection and scene text recognition performance as compared with using real images.

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