algorithm_rec_spin_en.md

SPIN: Structure-Preserving Inner Offset Network for Scene Text Recognition

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Environment
• 3. Model Training / Evaluation / Prediction
  • 3.1 Training
  • 3.2 Evaluation
  • 3.3 Prediction
• 4. Inference and Deployment
  • 4.1 Python Inference
  • 4.2 C++ Inference
  • 4.3 Serving
  • 4.4 More
• 5. FAQ

1. Introduction

Paper:

SPIN: Structure-Preserving Inner Offset Network for Scene Text Recognition Chengwei Zhang, Yunlu Xu, Zhanzhan Cheng, Shiliang Pu, Yi Niu, Fei Wu, Futai Zou AAAI, 2020

Using MJSynth and SynthText two text recognition datasets for training, and evaluating on IIIT, SVT, IC03, IC13, IC15, SVTP, CUTE datasets. The algorithm reproduction effect is as follows:

Model	Backbone	config	Acc	Download link
SPIN	ResNet32	rec_r32_gaspin_bilstm_att.yml	90.00%	trained model

2. Environment

Please refer to "Environment Preparation" to configure the PaddleOCR environment, and refer to "Project Clone" to clone the project code.

3. Model Training / Evaluation / Prediction

Please refer to Text Recognition Tutorial. PaddleOCR modularizes the code, and training different recognition models only requires changing the configuration file.

Training:

Specifically, after the data preparation is completed, the training can be started. The training command is as follows:

#Single GPU training (long training period, not recommended)
python3 tools/train.py -c configs/rec/rec_r32_gaspin_bilstm_att.yml

#Multi GPU training, specify the gpu number through the --gpus parameter
python3 -m paddle.distributed.launch --gpus '0,1,2,3'  tools/train.py -c configs/rec/rec_r32_gaspin_bilstm_att.yml

Evaluation:

# GPU evaluation
python3 -m paddle.distributed.launch --gpus '0' tools/eval.py -c configs/rec/rec_r32_gaspin_bilstm_att.yml -o Global.pretrained_model={path/to/weights}/best_accuracy

Prediction:

# The configuration file used for prediction must match the training
python3 tools/infer_rec.py -c configs/rec/rec_r32_gaspin_bilstm_att.yml -o Global.pretrained_model={path/to/weights}/best_accuracy Global.infer_img=doc/imgs_words/en/word_1.png

4. Inference and Deployment

4.1 Python Inference

First, the model saved during the SPIN text recognition training process is converted into an inference model. you can use the following command to convert:

python3 tools/export_model.py -c configs/rec/rec_r32_gaspin_bilstm_att.yml -o Global.pretrained_model={path/to/weights}/best_accuracy  Global.save_inference_dir=./inference/rec_r32_gaspin_bilstm_att

For SPIN text recognition model inference, the following commands can be executed:

python3 tools/infer/predict_rec.py --image_dir="./doc/imgs_words/en/word_1.png" --rec_model_dir="./inference/rec_r32_gaspin_bilstm_att/" --rec_image_shape="3, 32, 100" --rec_algorithm="SPIN" --rec_char_dict_path="/ppocr/utils/dict/spin_dict.txt" --use_space_char=False

4.2 C++ Inference

Not supported

4.3 Serving

Not supported

4.4 More

Not supported

5. FAQ

Citation

@article{2020SPIN,
  title={SPIN: Structure-Preserving Inner Offset Network for Scene Text Recognition},
  author={Chengwei Zhang and Yunlu Xu and Zhanzhan Cheng and Shiliang Pu and Yi Niu and Fei Wu and Futai Zou},
  journal={AAAI2020},
  year={2020},
}