Title
Handwritten Chemical Equations Recognition Based on Lightweight Networks
Abstract
Handwritten chemical equations recognition is one of the important research directions of optical character recognition (OCR) and text recognition technology, which is widely used in life. Although the mainstream deep learning text recognition model can get good recognition results, the number of parameters of the model is too large to be carried on some portable devices. We develop a new lightweight network model (LCRNN) based on the CRNN model for handwritten chemical equations recognition. Firstly, in the convolutional layer of the LCRNN model, we propose a new MobileNetV3 (MobileNetV3M) to reduce number of the model parameters. The MobileNetV3M changed the original down-sampling method to max-pooling, so it can extract more critical information. Secondly, we use the BiGRU model in the recurrent layer. Finally, a new chemical equations encoding method is proposed, which can change the two-dimensional chemical equation into one-dimensional chemical equation encoding, so as to facilitate handwritten chemical equations recognition. The experiments demonstrate that the character precision of the LCRNN model is 2.1% lower than the CRNN model, but the number of parameters is significantly reduced.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1007/978-3-031-13870-6_26
INTELLIGENT COMPUTING THEORIES AND APPLICATION (ICIC 2022), PT I
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Text recognition, Lightweight network, Chemical equations, CRNN, MobileNet
Conference
13393
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xiaofeng Wang134.45
Zhi-Huang He200.34
Zhize Wu300.34
Yun-Sheng Wei400.34
Kai Wang51734195.03
Le Zou600.34