Paper source

Arbitrary-Oriented Scene Text Detection via Rotation Proposals

License

RRPN is released under the MIT License (refer to the LICENSE file for details). This project is for research purpose only, further use for RRPN should contact authors.

Citing RRPN

If you find RRPN useful in your research, please consider citing:

@article{Jianqi17RRPN,
    Author = {Jianqi Ma and Weiyuan Shao and Hao Ye and Li Wang and Hong Wang and Yingbin Zheng and Xiangyang Xue},
    Title = {Arbitrary-Oriented Scene Text Detection via Rotation Proposals},
    journal = {arXiv:1703.01086},
    Year = {2017}
}

Requirements: software
Requirements: hardware
Basic installation
Demo
Beyond the demo: training and testing

Requirements: software

Requirements for Caffe and pycaffe (see: Caffe installation instructions)

Note: Caffe must be built with support for Python layers!

# In your Makefile.config, make sure to have this line uncommented
WITH_PYTHON_LAYER := 1
# Unrelatedly, it's also recommended that you use CUDNN
USE_CUDNN := 1

You can download my Makefile.config for reference. 2. Python packages you might not have: cython, python-opencv, easydict

Requirements: hardware

For training the end-to-end version of RRPN with VGG16, 4~5G of GPU memory is sufficient (using CUDNN)

Installation (sufficient for the demo)

Clone the RRPN repository

# git clone https://github.com/mjq11302010044/RRPN.git

We'll call the directory that you cloned RRPN into RRPN_ROOT
Build the Cython modules
```
cd $RRPN_ROOT/lib
make
```

Build Caffe and pycaffe

cd $RRPN_ROOT/caffe-fast-rcnn
# Now follow the Caffe installation instructions here:
#   http://caffe.berkeleyvision.org/installation.html

# If you're experienced with Caffe and have all of the requirements installed
# and your Makefile.config in place, then simply do:
make -j4 && make pycaffe

Download pre-computed RRPN detectors

Trained VGG16 model download link: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5rKZkZodGIsV2RJUjVlMjNOZkE

Then move the model into $RRPN_ROOT/data/faster_rcnn_models.

Demo

After successfully completing basic installation, you'll be ready to run the demo.

To run the demo

cd $RRPN_ROOT
python ./tools/rotation_demo.py

The txt results will be saved in $RRPN_ROOT/result

Beyond the demo: installation for training and testing models

You can use the function get_rroidb() in $RRPN_ROOT/lib/rotation/data_extractor.py to manage your training data:

Each training sample should be managed in a python dict like:

im_info = {
	'gt_classes': # Set to 1(Only text)
	'max_classes': # Set to 1(Only text)
	'image': # image path to access
	'boxes': # ground truth box
	'flipped' : # Flip an image or not (Not implemented)
	'gt_overlaps' : # overlap of a class(text)
	'seg_areas' : # area of an ground truth region
	'height': # height of an image data
	'width': # width of an image data
	'max_overlaps' : # max overlap with each gt-proposal
	'rotated': # Random angle to rotate an image
}

Then assign your database to the variable 'roidb' in main function of $RRPN_ROOT/tools/train_net.py

116: roidb = get_rroidb("train") # change to your data manage function

Download pre-trained ImageNet models

Pre-trained ImageNet models can be downloaded for the networks described in the paper: VGG16.

cd $RRPN_ROOT
./data/scripts/fetch_imagenet_models.sh

VGG16 comes from the Caffe Model Zoo, but is provided here for your convenience. ZF was trained at MSRA.

Then you can train RRPN by typing:

./experiment/scripts/faster_rcnn_end2end.sh [GPU_ID] [NET] rrpn

[NET] usually takes VGG16

Trained RRPN networks are saved under:(We set the directory to './' by default.)

./

One can change the directory in variable output_dir in $RRPN_ROOT/tools/train_net.py

Any question about this project please send message to Jianqi Ma(mjq11302010044@gmail.com), and enjoy it!

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