Recent scene text detection works mainly focus on curve text detection. However, in real applications, the curve texts are more scarce than the multi-oriented ones. Accurate detection of multi-oriented text with large variations of scales, orientations, and aspect ratios is of great significance. Among the multi-oriented detection methods, direct regression for the geometry of scene text shares a simple yet powerful pipeline and gets popular in academic and industrial communities, but it may produce imperfect detections, especially for long texts due to the limitation of the receptive field. In this work, we aim to improve this while keeping the pipeline simple. A fully convolutional corner refinement network (FC2RN) is proposed for accurate multi-oriented text detection, in which an initial corner prediction and a refined corner prediction are obtained at one pass. With a novel quadrilateral RoI convolution operation tailed for multi-oriented scene text, the initial quadrilateral prediction is encoded into the feature maps which can be further used to predict offset between the initial prediction and the ground-truth as well as output a refined confidence score. Experimental results on four public datasets including MSRA-TD500, ICDAR2017-RCTW, ICDAR2015, and COCO-Text demonstrate that FC2RN can outperform the state-of-the-art methods. The ablation study shows the effectiveness of corner refinement and scoring for accurate text localization.
UESTC（电子科技大学）；Sichuan University（四川大学）；Chongqing Institute of Public Security Science and Technology（重庆市公安科学技术研究院）
Previous approaches for scene text detection usually rely on manually defined sliding windows. This work presents an intuitive two-stage region-based method to detect multi-oriented text without any prior knowledge regarding the textual shape. In the first stage, we estimate the possible locations of text instances by detecting and linking corners instead of shifting a set of default anchors. The quadrilateral proposals are geometry adaptive, which allows our method to cope with various text aspect ratios and orientations. In the second stage, we design a new pooling layer named Dual-RoI Pooli…
Huazhong University of Science and Technology（华中科技大学）；Megvii Technology Inc.（旷视科技有限公司）；National University of Singapore（新加坡国立大学）
Previous deep learning based state-of-the-art scene text detection methods can be roughly classified into two categories. The first category treats scene text as a type of general objects and follows general object detection paradigm to localize scene text by regressing the text box locations, but troubled by the arbitrary-orientation and large aspect ratios of scene text. The second one segments text regions directly, but mostly needs complex post processing. In this paper, we present a method that combines the ideas of the two types of methods while avoiding their shortcomings. We propose to…
Qualcomm AI Research（高通人工智能研究院）；Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.（高通技术公司）；Shanghai Jiao Tong University（上海交通大学）
There has been a recent surge of interest in introducing transformers to 3D human pose estimation (HPE) due to their powerful capabilities in modeling long-term dependencies. However, existing transformer-based methods treat body joints as equally important inputs and ignore the prior knowledge of human skeleton topology in the self-attention mechanism. To tackle this issue, in this paper, we propose a Pose-Oriented Transformer (POT) with uncertainty guided refinement for 3D HPE. Specifically, we first develop novel pose-oriented self-attention mechanism and distance-related position embedding…
Institute of Automation, CAS（中国科学院自动化研究所）；School of Artificial Intelligence, UCAS（中国科学院大学人工智能学院）；Youtu Lab, Tencent（腾讯优图实验室）；CASIA-LLVision Joint Lab（中国科学院自动化研究所-联汇视界联合实验室）；Y-Tech, Kuaishou Technology（快手科技Y-Tech）
Object detection has achieved remarkable progress in the past decade. However, the detection of oriented and densely packed objects remains challenging because of following inherent reasons: (1) receptive fields of neurons are all axis-aligned and of the same shape, whereas objects are usually of diverse shapes and align along various directions; (2) detection models are typically trained with generic knowledge and may not generalize well to handle specific objects at test time; (3) the limited dataset hinders the development on this task. To resolve the first two issues, we present a dynamic …
Corner detection is a vital operation in numerous computer vision applications. The Chord-to-Point Distance Accumulation (CPDA) detector is recognized as the contour-based corner detector producing the lowest localization error while localizing corners in an image. However, in our experiment part, we demonstrate that CPDA detector often misses some potential corners. Moreover, the detection algorithm of CPDA is computationally costly. In this paper, We focus on reducing localization error as well as increasing average repeatability. The preprocessing and refinements steps of proposed process a…
OCMG-Net: Neural Oriented Normal Refinement for Unstructured Point Clouds
Institute of Automation, CAS（中国科学院自动化研究所）；Hong Kong Institute of Science & Innovation Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院香港创新研究院）；Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, CAS（中国科学院数学与系统科学研究院）
OCMG-Net提出一种点云定向法线精化框架，通过特征空间符号定向与数据增强、Chamfer Normal Distance度量及双并行架构，在效率与精度间取得平衡并提升抗噪性。
Huazhong University of Science and Technology（华中科技大学）；Alibaba Group（阿里巴巴集团）；Nanjing University（南京大学）
Over the past few years, the field of scene text detection has progressed rapidly that modern text detectors are able to hunt text in various challenging scenarios. However, they might still fall short when handling text instances of extreme aspect ratios and varying scales. To tackle such difficulties, we propose in this paper a new algorithm for scene text detection, which puts forward a set of strategies to significantly improve the quality of text localization. Specifically, a Text Feature Alignment Module (TFAM) is proposed to dynamically adjust the receptive fields of features based on i…
Parser-Oriented Structural Refinement for a Stable Layout Interface in Document Parsing
Unisound AI Technology Co., Ltd.（云知声智能科技股份有限公司）；School of Computer Science and Technology, Tianjin University（天津大学计算机科学与技术学院）；MAIS, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院自动化研究所多模态人工智能系统实验室）
CamoSAM2: SAM2-oriented Prompt Auto-Refinement for Video Camouflaged Object Detection
National Key Laboratory of Fundamental Science on Synthetic Vision, Sichuan University（合成视觉基础科学国家重点实验室，四川大学）；College of Computer Science, Sichuan University（计算机学院，四川大学）
RiO-DETR: DETR for Real-time Oriented Object Detection
University of Science and Technology of China（中国科学技术大学）；Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.（华为技术有限公司）；Tsinghua University（清华大学）；Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center（合肥综合国家科学中心人工智能研究院）
Oriented object detection in aerial images is a challenging task as the objects in aerial images are displayed in arbitrary directions and are usually densely packed. Current oriented object detection methods mainly rely on two-stage anchor-based detectors. However, the anchor-based detectors typically suffer from a severe imbalance issue between the positive and negative anchor boxes. To address this issue, in this work we extend the horizontal keypoint-based object detector to the oriented object detection task. In particular, we first detect the center keypoints of the objects, based on whi…
Birmingham University（伯明翰大学）；The University of Hong Kong（香港大学）；CUHK-Shenzhen（香港中文大学（深圳））；Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data（深圳大数据研究院）
Excellent performance has been achieved on instance segmentation but the quality on the boundary area remains unsatisfactory, which leads to a rising attention on boundary refinement. For practical use, an ideal post-processing refinement scheme are required to be accurate, generic and efficient. However, most of existing approaches propose pixel-wise refinement, which either introduce a massive computation cost or design specifically for different backbone models. Contour-based models are efficient and generic to be incorporated with any existing segmentation methods, but they often generate …
NAVER CLOVA；LG AI Research（LG人工智能研究院）；KAIST（韩国科学技术院）
We present a novel approach for oriented object detection, named TricubeNet, which localizes oriented objects using visual cues ($i.e.,$ heatmap) instead of oriented box offsets regression. We represent each object as a 2D Tricube kernel and extract bounding boxes using simple image-processing algorithms. Our approach is able to (1) obtain well-arranged boxes from visual cues, (2) solve the angle discontinuity problem, and (3) can save computational complexity due to our anchor-free modeling. To further boost the performance, we propose some effective techniques for size-invariant loss, reduci…
We propose a new method for segmentation-free joint estimation of orthogonal planes, their intersection lines, relationship graph and corners lying at the intersection of three orthogonal planes. Such unified scene exploration under orthogonality allows for multitudes of applications such as semantic plane detection or local and global scan alignment, which in turn can aid robot localization or grasping tasks. Our two-stage pipeline involves a rough yet joint estimation of orthogonal planes followed by a subsequent joint refinement of plane parameters respecting their orthogonality relations. …
In recent years, the multiple-stage strategy has become a popular trend for visual tracking. This strategy first utilizes a base tracker to coarsely locate the target and then exploits a refinement module to obtain more accurate results. However, existing refinement modules suffer from the limited transferability and precision. In this work, we propose a novel, flexible and accurate refinement module called Alpha-Refine, which exploits a precise pixel-wise correlation layer together with a spatial-aware non-local layer to fuse features and can predict three complementary outputs: bounding box,…
Georgia Institute of Technology（佐治亚理工学院）；Twentieth Century Fox（二十世纪福克斯公司）；Starfleet Academy（星际舰队学院）；Tyrell Inc.（泰瑞尔公司）
Object detection in optical remote sensing images is an important and challenging task. In recent years, the methods based on convolutional neural networks have made good progress. However, due to the large variation in object scale, aspect ratio, and arbitrary orientation, the detection performance is difficult to be further improved. In this paper, we discuss the role of discriminative features in object detection, and then propose a Critical Feature Capturing Network (CFC-Net) to improve detection accuracy from three aspects: building powerful feature representation, refining preset anchors…
Peking University（北京大学）；ETH Zurich（苏黎世联邦理工学院）；South China University of Technology（华南理工大学）
Arbitrary-oriented object detection (AOOD) is a challenging task to detect objects in the wild with arbitrary orientations and cluttered arrangements. Existing approaches are mainly based on anchor-based boxes or dense points, which rely on complicated hand-designed processing steps and inductive bias, such as anchor generation, transformation, and non-maximum suppression reasoning. Recently, the emerging transformer-based approaches view object detection as a direct set prediction problem that effectively removes the need for hand-designed components and inductive biases. In this paper, we pr…
IT-TextFusion: Iterative Text-Image Interaction with Text-Guided Residual Refinement for Degradation-Aware Image Fusion
School of Automation, Southeast University（东南大学自动化学院）；Chair of Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and Real-time Systems, Technical University of Munich（慕尼黑工业大学机器人、人工智能与实时系统研究所）
Real-Time Oriented Object Detection Transformer in Remote Sensing Images
School of Computer Science and Technology / School of Artificial Intelligence, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China（计算机科学与技术学院/人工智能学院，中国矿业大学，徐州221116，中国）；Mine Digitization Engineering Research Center of the Ministry of Education, Xuzhou 221116, China（教育部矿山数字化工程研究院，徐州221116，中国）；Jiangsu Provincial Industrial Technology Engineering Center for Intelligent Sensing and Emergency IoT in Underground Space, Xuzhou 221116, China（江苏省智能感知与应急物联网地下空间工程技术研究中心，徐州221116，中国）；School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada（电气工程与计算机科学学院，渥太华大学，渥太华，ON K1N 6N5，加拿大）
Autonomous radar has been an integral part of advanced driver assistance systems due to its robustness to adverse weather and various lighting conditions. Conventional automotive radars use digital signal processing (DSP) algorithms to process raw data into sparse radar pins that do not provide information regarding the size and orientation of the objects. In this paper, we propose a deep-learning based algorithm for radar object detection. The algorithm takes in radar data in its raw tensor representation and places probabilistic oriented bounding boxes around the detected objects in bird's-e…
CornerPoint3D: Look at the Nearest Corner Instead of the Center
University of Southampton（南安普顿大学）；Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)（香港科技大学（广州））；University of Liverpool（利物浦大学）；Cornell University（康奈尔大学）
TU Darmstadt（达姆施塔特工业大学）；Hessian Center for AI and Centre for Cognitive Science（黑森人工智能中心与认知科学中心）
We present DAFNe, a Dense one-stage Anchor-Free deep Network for oriented object detection. As a one-stage model, it performs bounding box predictions on a dense grid over the input image, being architecturally simpler in design, as well as easier to optimize than its two-stage counterparts. Furthermore, as an anchor-free model, it reduces the prediction complexity by refraining from employing bounding box anchors. With DAFNe we introduce an orientation-aware generalization of the center-ness function for arbitrarily oriented bounding boxes to down-weight low-quality predictions and a center-t…
Arbitrary-oriented object detection has been a building block for rotation sensitive tasks. We first show that the boundary problem suffered in existing dominant regression-based rotation detectors, is caused by angular periodicity or corner ordering, according to the parameterization protocol. We also show that the root cause is that the ideal predictions can be out of the defined range. Accordingly, we transform the angular prediction task from a regression problem to a classification one. For the resulting circularly distributed angle classification problem, we first devise a Circular Smoot…
ETH Zürich（苏黎世联邦理工学院）；University of Wurzburg（维尔茨堡大学）；KU Leuven（鲁汶大学）
Video denoising aims at removing noise from videos to recover clean ones. Some existing works show that optical flow can help the denoising by exploiting the additional spatial-temporal clues from nearby frames. However, the flow estimation itself is also sensitive to noise, and can be unusable under large noise levels. To this end, we propose a new multi-scale refined optical flow-guided video denoising method, which is more robust to different noise levels. Our method mainly consists of a denoising-oriented flow refinement (DFR) module and a flow-guided mutual denoising propagation (FMDP) mo…
