A project for research in text detection and recognition using PyTorch 1.2.

This project is originated from the research repo, which heavily relies on closed-source libraries, of CSG-Algorithm team of Megvii(https://megvii.com). We are in ongoing progress to transfer models into this repo gradually, released implementations are listed in Progress.

• Implementations of representative text detection and recognition methods.
• An effective framework for conducting experiments: We use yaml files to configure experiments, making it convenient to take experiments.
• Thorough logging features which make it easy to follow and analyze experimental results.
• CPU/GPU compatible for training and inference.
• Distributed training support.

pip install -r requirements.txt

• Python3.7
• PyTorch 1.2 and CUDA 10.0.
• gcc 5.5(Important for compiling)

cd PATH_TO_OPS
python setup.py build_ext --inplace

ops may be used:

• DeformableConvV2 assets/ops/dcn
• CTC2DLoss ops/ctc_2d

Edit configurations in config.py.

See detailed options: python3 train.py --help

We provide data loading implementation with annotation packed with json for quick start. Also, lmdb format data are now available too. You can refer the usage in demo. Datasets used in our recognition experiments can be downloaded from onedrive. The transform script are provide to convert json format data to lmdb.

python3 train.py PATH_TO_EXPERIMENT.yaml --validate --visualize --name NAME_OF_EXPERIMENT

Following we provide some of configurations of the released recognition models:

• CRNN: experiments/recognition/crnn.yaml
• 2D CTC: experiments/recognition/res50-ppm-2d-ctc.yaml
• Attention Decoder: experiments/recognition/fpn50-attention-decoder.yaml

python3 -m torch.distributed.launch --nproc_per_node=NUM_GPUS train.py PATH_TO_EXPERIMENT.yaml -d --validate

See detailed options: python3 eval.py --help.

Keeping ratio tesing is recommended: python3 eval.py PATH_TO_EXPERIMENT.yaml --resize_mode keep_ratio

Trained models are comming soon.

• 2D CTC
• CRNN
• Attention Decoder
• Rectification

• Text Snake
• EAST

• Mask Text Spotter

Contributing.md