DeepEraser: Deep Iterative Context Mining for Generic Text Eraser

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Autori principali: Feng, Hao, Wang, Wendi, Liu, Shaokai, Deng, Jiajun, Zhou, Wengang, Li, Houqiang
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author Feng, Hao
Wang, Wendi
Liu, Shaokai
Deng, Jiajun
Zhou, Wengang
Li, Houqiang
author_facet Feng, Hao
Wang, Wendi
Liu, Shaokai
Deng, Jiajun
Zhou, Wengang
Li, Houqiang
contents In this work, we present DeepEraser, an effective deep network for generic text removal. DeepEraser utilizes a recurrent architecture that erases the text in an image via iterative operations. Our idea comes from the process of erasing pencil script, where the text area designated for removal is subject to continuous monitoring and the text is attenuated progressively, ensuring a thorough and clean erasure. Technically, at each iteration, an innovative erasing module is deployed, which not only explicitly aggregates the previous erasing progress but also mines additional semantic context to erase the target text. Through iterative refinements, the text regions are progressively replaced with more appropriate content and finally converge to a relatively accurate status. Furthermore, a custom mask generation strategy is introduced to improve the capability of DeepEraser for adaptive text removal, as opposed to indiscriminately removing all the text in an image. Our DeepEraser is notably compact with only 1.4M parameters and trained in an end-to-end manner. To verify its effectiveness, extensive experiments are conducted on several prevalent benchmarks, including SCUT-Syn, SCUT-EnsText, and Oxford Synthetic text dataset. The quantitative and qualitative results demonstrate the effectiveness of our DeepEraser over the state-of-the-art methods, as well as its strong generalization ability in custom mask text removal. The codes and pre-trained models are available at https://github.com/fh2019ustc/DeepEraser
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spellingShingle DeepEraser: Deep Iterative Context Mining for Generic Text Eraser
Feng, Hao
Wang, Wendi
Liu, Shaokai
Deng, Jiajun
Zhou, Wengang
Li, Houqiang
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
In this work, we present DeepEraser, an effective deep network for generic text removal. DeepEraser utilizes a recurrent architecture that erases the text in an image via iterative operations. Our idea comes from the process of erasing pencil script, where the text area designated for removal is subject to continuous monitoring and the text is attenuated progressively, ensuring a thorough and clean erasure. Technically, at each iteration, an innovative erasing module is deployed, which not only explicitly aggregates the previous erasing progress but also mines additional semantic context to erase the target text. Through iterative refinements, the text regions are progressively replaced with more appropriate content and finally converge to a relatively accurate status. Furthermore, a custom mask generation strategy is introduced to improve the capability of DeepEraser for adaptive text removal, as opposed to indiscriminately removing all the text in an image. Our DeepEraser is notably compact with only 1.4M parameters and trained in an end-to-end manner. To verify its effectiveness, extensive experiments are conducted on several prevalent benchmarks, including SCUT-Syn, SCUT-EnsText, and Oxford Synthetic text dataset. The quantitative and qualitative results demonstrate the effectiveness of our DeepEraser over the state-of-the-art methods, as well as its strong generalization ability in custom mask text removal. The codes and pre-trained models are available at https://github.com/fh2019ustc/DeepEraser
title DeepEraser: Deep Iterative Context Mining for Generic Text Eraser
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19108