Masked and Permuted Implicit Context Learning for Scene Text Recognition

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Main Authors: Yang, Xiaomeng, Qiao, Zhi, Wei, Jin, Yang, Dongbao, Zhou, Yu
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Published: 2023
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author Yang, Xiaomeng
Qiao, Zhi
Wei, Jin
Yang, Dongbao
Zhou, Yu
author_facet Yang, Xiaomeng
Qiao, Zhi
Wei, Jin
Yang, Dongbao
Zhou, Yu
contents Scene Text Recognition (STR) is difficult because of the variations in text styles, shapes, and backgrounds. Though the integration of linguistic information enhances models' performance, existing methods based on either permuted language modeling (PLM) or masked language modeling (MLM) have their pitfalls. PLM's autoregressive decoding lacks foresight into subsequent characters, while MLM overlooks inter-character dependencies. Addressing these problems, we propose a masked and permuted implicit context learning network for STR, which unifies PLM and MLM within a single decoder, inheriting the advantages of both approaches. We utilize the training procedure of PLM, and to integrate MLM, we incorporate word length information into the decoding process and replace the undetermined characters with mask tokens. Besides, perturbation training is employed to train a more robust model against potential length prediction errors. Our empirical evaluations demonstrate the performance of our model. It not only achieves superior performance on the common benchmarks but also achieves a substantial improvement of $9.1\%$ on the more challenging Union14M-Benchmark.
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Yang, Xiaomeng
Qiao, Zhi
Wei, Jin
Yang, Dongbao
Zhou, Yu
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Scene Text Recognition (STR) is difficult because of the variations in text styles, shapes, and backgrounds. Though the integration of linguistic information enhances models' performance, existing methods based on either permuted language modeling (PLM) or masked language modeling (MLM) have their pitfalls. PLM's autoregressive decoding lacks foresight into subsequent characters, while MLM overlooks inter-character dependencies. Addressing these problems, we propose a masked and permuted implicit context learning network for STR, which unifies PLM and MLM within a single decoder, inheriting the advantages of both approaches. We utilize the training procedure of PLM, and to integrate MLM, we incorporate word length information into the decoding process and replace the undetermined characters with mask tokens. Besides, perturbation training is employed to train a more robust model against potential length prediction errors. Our empirical evaluations demonstrate the performance of our model. It not only achieves superior performance on the common benchmarks but also achieves a substantial improvement of $9.1\%$ on the more challenging Union14M-Benchmark.
title Masked and Permuted Implicit Context Learning for Scene Text Recognition
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.16172