Self-Supervised Pre-training with Symmetric Superimposition Modeling for Scene Text Recognition

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05841v2
• Date: Sat, 11 May 2024 02:32:07 GMT
• Title: Self-Supervised Pre-training with Symmetric Superimposition Modeling for Scene Text Recognition
• Authors: Zuan Gao, Yuxin Wang, Yadong Qu, Boqiang Zhang, Zixiao Wang, Jianjun Xu, Hongtao Xie,
• Abstract summary: We propose Symmetric Superimposition Modeling to simultaneously capture local character features and linguistic information in text images. At the pixel level, we reconstruct the original and inverted images to capture character shapes and texture-level linguistic context. At the feature level, we reconstruct the feature of the same original image and inverted image with different augmentations to model the semantic-level linguistic context and the local character discrimination.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: In text recognition, self-supervised pre-training emerges as a good solution to reduce dependence on expansive annotated real data. Previous studies primarily focus on local visual representation by leveraging mask image modeling or sequence contrastive learning. However, they omit modeling the linguistic information in text images, which is crucial for recognizing text. To simultaneously capture local character features and linguistic information in visual space, we propose Symmetric Superimposition Modeling (SSM). The objective of SSM is to reconstruct the direction-specific pixel and feature signals from the symmetrically superimposed input. Specifically, we add the original image with its inverted views to create the symmetrically superimposed inputs. At the pixel level, we reconstruct the original and inverted images to capture character shapes and texture-level linguistic context. At the feature level, we reconstruct the feature of the same original image and inverted image with different augmentations to model the semantic-level linguistic context and the local character discrimination. In our design, we disrupt the character shape and linguistic rules. Consequently, the dual-level reconstruction facilitates understanding character shapes and linguistic information from the perspective of visual texture and feature semantics. Experiments on various text recognition benchmarks demonstrate the effectiveness and generality of SSM, with 4.1% average performance gains and 86.6% new state-of-the-art average word accuracy on Union14M benchmarks. The code is available at https://github.com/FaltingsA/SSM.

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