Box2Poly: Memory-Efficient Polygon Prediction of Arbitrarily Shaped and Rotated Text

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2309.11248v1
• Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2023 12:19:07 GMT
• Title: Box2Poly: Memory-Efficient Polygon Prediction of Arbitrarily Shaped and Rotated Text
• Authors: Xuyang Chen, Dong Wang, Konrad Schindler, Mingwei Sun, Yongliang Wang, Nicolo Savioli, Liqiu Meng
• Abstract summary: Transformer-based text detection techniques have sought to predict polygons. We present an innovative approach rooted in Sparse R-CNN: a cascade decoding pipeline for polygon prediction. Our method ensures precision by iteratively refining polygon predictions, considering both the scale and location of preceding results.
• Score: 27.556486778356014
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Recently, Transformer-based text detection techniques have sought to predict polygons by encoding the coordinates of individual boundary vertices using distinct query features. However, this approach incurs a significant memory overhead and struggles to effectively capture the intricate relationships between vertices belonging to the same instance. Consequently, irregular text layouts often lead to the prediction of outlined vertices, diminishing the quality of results. To address these challenges, we present an innovative approach rooted in Sparse R-CNN: a cascade decoding pipeline for polygon prediction. Our method ensures precision by iteratively refining polygon predictions, considering both the scale and location of preceding results. Leveraging this stabilized regression pipeline, even employing just a single feature vector to guide polygon instance regression yields promising detection results. Simultaneously, the leverage of instance-level feature proposal substantially enhances memory efficiency (>50% less vs. the state-of-the-art method DPText-DETR) and reduces inference speed (>40% less vs. DPText-DETR) with minor performance drop on benchmarks.

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