EAST: An Efficient and Accurate Scene Text Detector

Introduction

This is a tensorflow re-implementation of EAST: An Efficient and Accurate Scene Text Detector. The features are summarized blow:

• Online demo
  • http://east.zxytim.com/
  • Result example: http://east.zxytim.com/?r=48e5020a-7b7f-11e7-b776-f23c91e0703e
  • CAVEAT: There's only one cpu core on the demo server. Simultaneous access will degrade response time.
• Only RBOX part is implemented.
• A fast Locality-Aware NMS in C++ provided by the paper's author.
• The pre-trained model provided achieves 80.83 F1-score on ICDAR 2015 Incidental Scene Text Detection Challenge using only training images from ICDAR 2015 and 2013. see here for the detailed results.
• Differences from original paper
  • Use ResNet-50 rather than PVANET
  • Use dice loss (optimize IoU of segmentation) rather than balanced cross entropy
  • Use linear learning rate decay rather than staged learning rate decay
• Speed on 720p (resolution of 1280x720) images:
  • Now
    • Graphic card: GTX 1080 Ti
    • Network fprop: ~50 ms
    • NMS (C++): ~6ms
    • Overall: ~16 fps
  • Then
    • Graphic card: K40
    • Network fprop: ~150 ms
    • NMS (python): ~300ms
    • Overall: ~2 fps

Thanks for the author's (@zxytim) help! Please cite his paper if you find this useful.

Contents

1. Installation
2. Download
3. Demo
4. Test
5. Train
6. Examples

Installation

1. Any version of tensorflow version > 1.0 should be ok.

Download

1. Models trained on ICDAR 2013 (training set) + ICDAR 2015 (training set): BaiduYun link GoogleDrive
2. Resnet V1 50 provided by tensorflow slim: slim resnet v1 50

Train

If you want to train the model, you should provide the dataset path, in the dataset path, a separate gt text file should be provided for each image and run

python multigpu_train.py --gpu_list=0 --input_size=512 --batch_size_per_gpu=14 --checkpoint_path=/tmp/east_icdar2015_resnet_v1_50_rbox/ \
--text_scale=512 --training_data_path=/data/ocr/icdar2015/ --geometry=RBOX --learning_rate=0.0001 --num_readers=24 \
--pretrained_model_path=/tmp/resnet_v1_50.ckpt

If you have more than one gpu, you can pass gpu ids to gpu_list(like --gpu_list=0,1,2,3)

Note: you should change the gt text file of icdar2015's filename to img_*.txt instead of gt_img_*.txt(or you can change the code in icdar.py), and some extra characters should be removed from the file. See the examples in training_samples/

Demo

If you've downloaded the pre-trained model, you can setup a demo server by

python3 run_demo_server.py --checkpoint-path /tmp/east_icdar2015_resnet_v1_50_rbox/

Then open http://localhost:8769 for the web demo. Notice that the URL will change after you submitted an image. Something like ?r=49647854-7ac2-11e7-8bb7-80000210fe80 appends and that makes the URL persistent. As long as you are not deleting data in static/results, you can share your results to your friends using the same URL.

URL for example below: http://east.zxytim.com/?r=48e5020a-7b7f-11e7-b776-f23c91e0703e

Test

run

python eval.py --test_data_path=/tmp/images/ --gpu_list=0 --checkpoint_path=/tmp/east_icdar2015_resnet_v1_50_rbox/ \
--output_path=/tmp/

a text file will be then written to the output path.

Examples

Here are some test examples on icdar2015, enjoy the beautiful text boxes!

Please let me know if you encounter any issues(my email boostczc@gmail dot com).