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Selective Distillation of Weakly Annotated GTD for Vision-based Slab Identification System

10/09/2018
by   Sang Jun Lee, et al.
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This paper proposes an algorithm for recognizing slab identification numbers in factory scenes. In the development a deep-learning based system, manual labeling for preparing ground truth data (GTD) is an important but expensive task. Furthermore, the quality of GTD is closely related to the performance of a supervised learning algorithm. To reduce manual work in labeling process, we generated weakly annotated GTD by marking only character centroids. Whereas conventional GTD for scene text recognition, bounding-boxes, require at least a drag-and-drop operation or two clicks to annotate a character location, the weakly annotated GTD requires a single click to record a character location. The main contribution of this paper is on selective distillation to improve the quality of the weakly annotated GTD. Because manual GTD are usually generated by many people, it may contain personal bias or human error. To address this problem, the information in manual GTD is integrated and refined by selective distillation. In the process of selective distillation, a fully convolutional network (FCN) is trained using the weakly annotated GTD, and its prediction maps are selectively used to revise locations and boundaries of semantic regions of characters in the initial GTD. The modified GTD are used in main training stage, and a post-processing is conducted to retrieve text information. Experiments were thoroughly conducted on actual industry data collected at a steelworks to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.

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