Title
Tightness-Aware Evaluation Protocol For Scene Text Detection
Abstract
Evaluation protocols play key role in the developmental progress of text detection methods. There are strict requirements to ensure that the evaluation methods are fair, objective and reasonable. However, existing metrics exhibit some obvious drawbacks: 1) They are not goal-oriented; 2) they cannot recognize the tightness of detection methods; 3) existing one-to-many and many-to-one solutions involve inherent loopholes and deficiencies. Therefore, this paper proposes a novel evaluation protocol called Tightness-aware Intersect-over-Union (TIoU) metric that could quantify completeness of ground truth, compactness of detection, and tightness of matching degree. Specifically, instead of merely using the IoU value, two common detection behaviors are properly considered; meanwhile, directly using the score of TIoU to recognize the tightness. In addition, we further propose a straightforward method to address the annotation granularity issue, which can fairly evaluate word and text-line detections simultaneously. By adopting the detection results from published methods and general object detection frameworks, comprehensive experiments on ICDAR 2013 and ICDAR 2015 datasets are conducted to compare recent metrics and the proposed TIoU metric. The comparison demonstrated some promising new prospects, e.g., determining the methods and frameworks for which the detection is tighter and more beneficial to recognize. Our method is extremely simple; however, the novelty is none other than the proposed metric can utilize simplest but reasonable improvements to lead to many interesting and insightful prospects and solving most the issues of the previous metrics.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/CVPR.2019.00984
2019 IEEE/CVF CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER VISION AND PATTERN RECOGNITION (CVPR 2019)
Field
DocType
Volume
Object detection,Annotation,Computer science,Ground truth,Artificial intelligence,Granularity,Novelty,Completeness (statistics),Machine learning,Text detection
Journal
abs/1904.00813
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1063-6919
2
0.36
References 
Authors
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yuliang Liu16613.22
Lianwen Jin21337113.14
zecheng xie3967.55
Canjie Luo4549.32
Shuaitao Zhang5303.86
Lele Xie6212.34