MMOCR Release v1.0.0rc1

Highlights

This release fixes a severe bug causing inaccurate metric reports in multi-GPU training. Together with the fix, weights for all the text recognition models in MMOCR 1.0 architecture are released. The inference shorthand for them are also added back to ocr.py. Besides, more documentation chapters are available now.

New Features & Enhancements

• Simplify the Mask R-CNN config by @xinke-wang in #1391
• auto scale lr by @Harold-lkk in #1326
• Update paths to pretrain weights by @gaotongxiao in #1416
• Streamline duplicated split_result in pan_postprocessor by @gaotongxiao in #1418
• Update model links in ocr.py and inference.md by @gaotongxiao in #1431
• Update rec configs by @gaotongxiao in #1417
• Visualizer refine by @Harold-lkk in #1411
• Support get flops and parameters in dev-1.x by @vansin in #1414

Docs

• intersphinx and api by @Harold-lkk in #1367
• Fix quickrun by @gaotongxiao in #1374
• Fix some docs issues by @gaotongxiao in #1385
• Add Documents for DataElements by @xinke-wang in #1381
• config english by @Harold-lkk in #1372
• Metrics by @xinke-wang in #1399
• Add version switcher to menu by @gaotongxiao in #1407
• Data Transforms by @xinke-wang in #1392
• Fix inference docs by @gaotongxiao in #1415
• Fix some docs by @xinke-wang in #1410
• Add maintenance plan to migration guide by @xinke-wang in #1413
• Update Recog Models by @xinke-wang in #1402

Bug Fixes

• clear metric.results only done in main process by @Harold-lkk in #1379
• Fix a bug in MMDetWrapper by @xinke-wang in #1393
• Fix browse_dataset.py by @Mountchicken in #1398
• ImgAugWrapper: Do not cilp polygons if not applicable by @gaotongxiao in #1231
• Fix CI by @gaotongxiao in #1365
• Fix merge stage test by @gaotongxiao in #1370
• Del CI support for torch 1.5.1 by @gaotongxiao in #1371
• Test windows cu111 by @gaotongxiao in #1373
• Fix windows CI by @gaotongxiao in #1387
• Upgrade pre commit hooks by @Harold-lkk in #1429
• Skip invalid augmented polygons in ImgAugWrapper by @gaotongxiao in #1434

New Contributors

• @vansin made their first contribution in #1414

Full Changelog: v1.0.0rc0...v1.0.0rc1