Title
UDoc-GAN: Unpaired Document Illumination Correction with Background Light Prior
Abstract
ABSTRACTDocument images captured by mobile devices are usually degraded by uncontrollable illumination, which hampers the clarity of document content. Recently, a series of research efforts have been devoted to correcting the uneven document illumination. However, existing methods rarely consider the use of ambient light information, and usually rely on paired samples including degraded and the corrected ground-truth images which are not always accessible. To this end, we propose UDoc-GAN, the first framework to address the problem of document illumination correction under the unpaired setting. Specifically, we first predict the ambient light features of the document. Then, according to the characteristics of different level of ambient lights, we re-formulate the cycle consistency constraint to learn the underlying relationship between normal and abnormal illumination domains. To prove the effectiveness of our approach, we conduct extensive experiments on DocProj dataset under the unpaired setting. Compared with the state-of-the-art approaches, our method demonstrates promising performance in terms of character error rate (CER) and edit distance (ED), together with better qualitative results for textual detail preservation. The source code is now publicly available at \urlhttps://github.com/harrytea/UDoc-GAN.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1145/3503161.3547916
International Multimedia Conference
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yonghui Wang100.34
Wengang Zhou2122679.31
Zhenbo Lu300.34
Houqiang Li42090172.30