Title
Generating Text Sequence Images for Recognition
Abstract
Recently, methods based on deep learning have dominated the field of text recognition. With a large number of training data, most of them can achieve the state-of-the-art performances. However, it is hard to harvest and label sufficient text sequence images from the real scenes. To mitigate this issue, several methods to synthesize text sequence images were proposed, yet they usually need complicated preceding or follow-up steps. In this work, we present a method which is able to generate infinite training data without any auxiliary pre/post-process. We tackle the generation task as an image-to-image translation one and utilize conditional adversarial networks to produce realistic text sequence images in the light of the semantic ones. Some evaluation metrics are involved to assess our method and the results demonstrate that the caliber of the data is satisfactory. The code and dataset will be publicly available soon.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1007/s11063-019-10166-x
Neural Processing Letters
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Image generation, Text sequence images, Training data, Text recognition
Journal
51
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
1370-4621
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yanxiang Gong141.79
Linjie Deng241.79
Zheng Ma3112.18
Mei Xie411.36