HsiehYiChia / Scene-text-recognition

Scene text detection and recognition based on Extremal Region(ER)
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What does it mean to be “strong” and “weak”? #3

Closed Sincky closed 4 years ago

Sincky commented 6 years ago

I know it uses the machine classifier to judge non-text. But i didn't know what does it mean to be “strong” and “weak”? What are the "strong" and "weak" classifying based on? I want to learn it and make it better to classify。

My English is no well,maybe you can't easily to read。 Hope to get your reply.

//Chinese 中文 strong和weak分类器是根据什么来判定的? 我想去深入了解一下并把它改进改进。

HsiehYiChia commented 6 years ago

The text classification system consist of 2 classifiers. All the detected ERs will go through strong classifier, and classified as strong-text and non-strong-text. Non-strong-text candidates will then go through weak classifier, and classified as weak-text and non-text.

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Strong text classifier has higher precision but lower recall, and vice versa. Recall and precision is a trade-off. The 2-stage classifier aim to provide better recall and precision than single classifier. You can refer to "Canny Text Detector: Fast and Robust Scene Text Localization Algorithm", which this algorithm is based on. image

Your English is good enough to deliver your question, btw :D

Sincky commented 6 years ago

Thank you.You explained very clearly. :D