Title
Reciprocal Feature Learning via Explicit and Implicit Tasks in Scene Text Recognition
Abstract
Text recognition is a popular topic for its broad applications. In this work, we excavate the implicit task, character counting within the traditional text recognition, without additional labor annotation cost. The implicit task plays as an auxiliary branch for complementing the sequential recognition. We design a two-branch reciprocal feature learning framework in order to adequately utilize the features from both the tasks. Through exploiting the complementary effect between explicit and implicit tasks, the feature is reliably enhanced. Extensive experiments on 7 benchmarks show the advantages of the proposed methods in both text recognition and the new-built character counting tasks. In addition, it is convenient yet effective to equip with variable networks and tasks. We offer abundant ablation studies, generalizing experiments with deeper understanding on the tasks. Code is available.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1007/978-3-030-86549-8_19
DOCUMENT ANALYSIS AND RECOGNITION - ICDAR 2021, PT I
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Scene text recognition, Character counting
Conference
12821
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hui Jiang100.68
Yunlu Xu2103.86
Zhanzhan Cheng3185.55
Shiliang Pu418742.65
Yi Niu54619.65
Wenqi Ren600.68
Fei Wu72209153.88
Wenming Tan813.74