Title
I3CL: Intra- and Inter-Instance Collaborative Learning for Arbitrary-Shaped Scene Text Detection
Abstract
Existing methods for arbitrary-shaped text detection in natural scenes face two critical issues, i.e., (1) fracture detections at the gaps in a text instance; and (2) inaccurate detections of arbitrary-shaped text instances with diverse background context. To address these issues, we propose a novel method named Intra- and Inter-Instance Collaborative Learning (I3CL). Specifically, to address the first issue, we design an effective convolutional module with multiple receptive fields, which is able to collaboratively learn better character and gap feature representations at local and long ranges inside a text instance. To address the second issue, we devise an instance-based transformer module to exploit the dependencies between different text instances and a global context module to exploit the semantic context from the shared background, which are able to collaboratively learn more discriminative text feature representation. In this way, I3CL can effectively exploit the intra- and inter-instance dependencies together in a unified end-to-end trainable framework. Besides, to make full use of the unlabeled data, we design an effective semi-supervised learning method to leverage the pseudo labels via an ensemble strategy. Without bells and whistles, experimental results show that the proposed I3CL sets new state-of-the-art results on three challenging public benchmarks, i.e., an F-measure of 77.5% on ArT, 86.9% on Total-Text, and 86.4% on CTW-1500. Notably, our I3CL with the ResNeSt-101 backbone ranked the 1st place on the ArT leaderboard. Code is available at www.github.com/ViTAE-Transformer/ViTAE-Transformer-Scene-Text-Detection .
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1007/s11263-022-01616-6
International Journal of Computer Vision
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Text detection, Collaborative learning, Semi-supervised learning, Deep learning, Transformer
Journal
130
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
8
0920-5691
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
10
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Bo Du11662130.01
Jian Ye200.34
Jing Zhang315437.58
Liu Juhua484.91
Dacheng Tao519032747.78