Recognizing text extracted from multiple domains is complex and challenging because complexities vary from one domain to another. Most existing methods focus either on natural scene text or specific text type but not text of multiple domains, namely, scene, underwater, and drone texts. In addition, the state-of-the-art models ignore the vital cues that exist in multiple instances of the text. This paper presents a new method called the Student-Teacher-Assistant (STA) network, which involves dual CLIP models to exploit cues in multiple text instances. The model that uses ResNet50 in its image encoder is called helper CLIP, while the model that uses ViT in its image encoder is called primary CLIP. The proposed work processes both models simultaneously to extract visual and textual features through image and text encoders. Our work uses cosine similarity for the randomly chosen input image to detect instances similar to the input image. The input and similar instances are supplied to primary and helper CLIPs for visual and textual feature extraction. The outputs of dual CLIPs are fused in a different way through the alignment step for recognizing text accurately, irrespective of domains. To demonstrate the proposed model’s significance, experiments are conducted on a set of standard natural scene text datasets (regular and irregular), underwater images, and drone images. The results on three different domains show that the proposed model outperforms the state-of-the-art recognition models. The datasets and code for public use in training and testing shall be made available on GitHub.

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DATR: Domain Agnostic Text Recognizer

  • Kunal Purkayastha,
  • Shashwat Sarkar,
  • Shivakumara Palaiahnakote,
  • Umapada Pal,
  • Palash Ghosal

摘要

Recognizing text extracted from multiple domains is complex and challenging because complexities vary from one domain to another. Most existing methods focus either on natural scene text or specific text type but not text of multiple domains, namely, scene, underwater, and drone texts. In addition, the state-of-the-art models ignore the vital cues that exist in multiple instances of the text. This paper presents a new method called the Student-Teacher-Assistant (STA) network, which involves dual CLIP models to exploit cues in multiple text instances. The model that uses ResNet50 in its image encoder is called helper CLIP, while the model that uses ViT in its image encoder is called primary CLIP. The proposed work processes both models simultaneously to extract visual and textual features through image and text encoders. Our work uses cosine similarity for the randomly chosen input image to detect instances similar to the input image. The input and similar instances are supplied to primary and helper CLIPs for visual and textual feature extraction. The outputs of dual CLIPs are fused in a different way through the alignment step for recognizing text accurately, irrespective of domains. To demonstrate the proposed model’s significance, experiments are conducted on a set of standard natural scene text datasets (regular and irregular), underwater images, and drone images. The results on three different domains show that the proposed model outperforms the state-of-the-art recognition models. The datasets and code for public use in training and testing shall be made available on GitHub.