CRAFT: Character-Region Awareness For Text detection

Official Pytorch implementation of CRAFT text detector | Paper | Pretrained Model | Supplementary

Youngmin Baek, Bado Lee, Dongyoon Han, Sangdoo Yun, Hwalsuk Lee.

Clova AI Research, NAVER Corp.

Sample Results

Overview

PyTorch implementation for CRAFT text detector that effectively detect text area by exploring each character region and affinity between characters. The bounding box of texts are obtained by simply finding minimum bounding rectangles on binary map after thresholding character region and affinity scores.

Updates

13 Jun, 2019: Initial update 20 Jul, 2019: Added post-processing for polygon result 28 Sep, 2019: Added the trained model on IC15 and the link refiner

Getting started

Install dependencies

Requirements

• PyTorch>=0.4.1
• torchvision>=0.2.1
• opencv-python>=3.4.2
• check requiremtns.txt

  pip install -r requirements.txt

Training

The code for training is not included in this repository, and we cannot release the full training code for IP reason.

Test instruction using pretrained model

• Download the trained models

  Model name	Used datasets	Languages	Purpose	Model Link
  General	SynthText, IC13, IC17	Eng + MLT	For general purpose	Click
  IC15	SynthText, IC15	Eng	For IC15 only	Click
  LinkRefiner	CTW1500	-	Used with the General Model	Click

• Run with pretrained model

  python test.py --trained_model=[weightfile] --test_folder=[folder path to test images]

The result image and socre maps will be saved to ./result by default.

Arguments

• --trained_model: pretrained model
• --text_threshold: text confidence threshold
• --low_text: text low-bound score
• --link_threshold: link confidence threshold
• --cuda: use cuda for inference (default:True)
• --canvas_size: max image size for inference
• --mag_ratio: image magnification ratio
• --poly: enable polygon type result
• --show_time: show processing time
• --test_folder: folder path to input images
• --refine: use link refiner for sentense-level dataset
• --refiner_model: pretrained refiner model

Links

• WebDemo : https://demo.ocr.clova.ai/
• Repo of recognition : https://github.com/clovaai/deep-text-recognition-benchmark

Citation

@inproceedings{baek2019character,
  title={Character Region Awareness for Text Detection},
  author={Baek, Youngmin and Lee, Bado and Han, Dongyoon and Yun, Sangdoo and Lee, Hwalsuk},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition},
  pages={9365--9374},
  year={2019}
}

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