Title
Robust Lexicon-Free Confidence Prediction For Text Recognition
Abstract
Benefiting from the success of deep learning, Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is booming in recent years. As we all know, the text recognition results are vulnerable to slight perturbation in input images, thus a method for measuring how reliable the results are is crucial. In this paper, we present a novel method for confidence measurement given a text recognition result, which can be embedded in any text recognizer with little overheads. Our method consists of two stages with a coarse-to-fine style. The first stage generates multiple candidates for voting coarse scores by a Single-Input Multi-Output network (SIMO). The second stage calculates a refined confidence score referred by the voting result and the conditional probabilities of the Top-1 probable recognition sequence. Highly competitive performance is achieved on several standard benchmarks which validate the efficiency and effectiveness of the proposed method. Moreover, it can be adopted in both Latin and non-Latin languages.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/ICPR48806.2021.9412671
2020 25TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PATTERN RECOGNITION (ICPR)
DocType
ISSN
Citations 
Conference
1051-4651
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
qi song112.37
Qianyi Jiang200.68
Rui Zhang301.69
Xiaolin Wei478.27