An Evaluation of OCR on Egocentric Data

06/11/2022

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by   Valentin Popescu, et al.

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In this paper, we evaluate state-of-the-art OCR methods on Egocentric data. We annotate text in EPIC-KITCHENS images, and demonstrate that existing OCR methods struggle with rotated text, which is frequently observed on objects being handled. We introduce a simple rotate-and-merge procedure which can be applied to pre-trained OCR models that halves the normalized edit distance error. This suggests that future OCR attempts should incorporate rotation into model design and training procedures.