Billet Number Recognition Based on Test-Time Adaptation

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Main Authors: Wei, Yuan, Zhou, Xiuzhuang
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Published: 2025
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author Wei, Yuan
Zhou, Xiuzhuang
author_facet Wei, Yuan
Zhou, Xiuzhuang
contents During the steel billet production process, it is essential to recognize machine-printed or manually written billet numbers on moving billets in real-time. To address the issue of low recognition accuracy for existing scene text recognition methods, caused by factors such as image distortions and distribution differences between training and test data, we propose a billet number recognition method that integrates test-time adaptation with prior knowledge. First, we introduce a test-time adaptation method into a model that uses the DB network for text detection and the SVTR network for text recognition. By minimizing the model's entropy during the testing phase, the model can adapt to the distribution of test data without the need for supervised fine-tuning. Second, we leverage the billet number encoding rules as prior knowledge to assess the validity of each recognition result. Invalid results, which do not comply with the encoding rules, are replaced. Finally, we introduce a validation mechanism into the CTC algorithm using prior knowledge to address its limitations in recognizing damaged characters. Experimental results on real datasets, including both machine-printed billet numbers and handwritten billet numbers, show significant improvements in evaluation metrics, validating the effectiveness of the proposed method.
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spellingShingle Billet Number Recognition Based on Test-Time Adaptation
Wei, Yuan
Zhou, Xiuzhuang
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
During the steel billet production process, it is essential to recognize machine-printed or manually written billet numbers on moving billets in real-time. To address the issue of low recognition accuracy for existing scene text recognition methods, caused by factors such as image distortions and distribution differences between training and test data, we propose a billet number recognition method that integrates test-time adaptation with prior knowledge. First, we introduce a test-time adaptation method into a model that uses the DB network for text detection and the SVTR network for text recognition. By minimizing the model's entropy during the testing phase, the model can adapt to the distribution of test data without the need for supervised fine-tuning. Second, we leverage the billet number encoding rules as prior knowledge to assess the validity of each recognition result. Invalid results, which do not comply with the encoding rules, are replaced. Finally, we introduce a validation mechanism into the CTC algorithm using prior knowledge to address its limitations in recognizing damaged characters. Experimental results on real datasets, including both machine-printed billet numbers and handwritten billet numbers, show significant improvements in evaluation metrics, validating the effectiveness of the proposed method.
title Billet Number Recognition Based on Test-Time Adaptation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.09026