Image-based sequence recognition has been a longstanding research topic in computer vision. In this paper, we investigate the problem of scene text recognition, which is among the most important and challenging tasks in image-based sequence recognition. A novel neural network architecture, which integrates feature extraction, sequence modeling and transcription into a unified framework, is proposed. Compared with previous systems for scene text recognition, the proposed architecture possesses four distinctive properties: (1) It is end-to-end trainable, in contrast to most of the existing algorithms whose components are separately trained and tuned. (2) It naturally handles sequences in arbitrary lengths, involving no character segmentation or horizontal scale normalization. (3) It is not confined to any predefined lexicon and achieves remarkable performances in both lexicon-free and lexicon-based scene text recognition tasks. (4) It generates an effective yet much smaller model, which is more practical for real-world application scenarios. The experiments on standard benchmarks, including the IIIT-5K, Street View Text and ICDAR datasets, demonstrate the superiority of the proposed algorithm over the prior arts. Moreover, the proposed algorithm performs well in the task of image-based music score recognition, which evidently verifies the generality of it.

The International Workshop on Reading Music Systems (WoRMS) is a workshop that tries to connect researchers who develop systems for reading music, such as in the field of Optical Music Recognition, with other researchers and practitioners that could benefit from such systems, like librarians or musicologists. The relevant topics of interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to: Music reading systems; Optical music recognition; Datasets and performance evaluation; Image processing on music scores; Writer identification; Authoring, editing, storing and presentation systems for music scores; Multi-modal systems; Novel input-methods for music to produce written music; Web-based Music Information Retrieval services; Applications and projects; Use-cases related to written music. These are the proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Reading Music Systems, held in Alicante on the 23rd of July 2021.

自动识别脚本是多语言OCR引擎的重要组成部分。在本文中，我们介绍了基于CNN-LSTM网络的高效，轻量级，实时和设备空间关注，用于场景文本脚本标识，可在资源受限移动设备上部署部署。我们的网络由CNN组成，配备有空间注意模块，有助于减少自然图像中存在的空间扭曲。这允许特征提取器在忽略畸形的同时产生丰富的图像表示，从而提高了该细粒化分类任务的性能。该网络还采用残留卷积块来构建深度网络以专注于脚本的鉴别特征。 CNN通过识别属于特定脚本的每个字符来学习文本特征表示，并且使用LSTM层的序列学习能力捕获文本内的长期空间依赖关系。将空间注意机制与残留卷积块相结合，我们能够增强基线CNN的性能，以构建用于脚本识别的端到端可训练网络。若干标准基准测试的实验结果证明了我们方法的有效性。该网络实现了最先进的方法竞争准确性，并且在网络尺寸方面优越，总共仅为110万个参数，推理时间为2.7毫秒。

手写数字识别（HDR）是光学特征识别（OCR）领域中最具挑战性的任务之一。不管语言如何，HDR都存在一些固有的挑战，这主要是由于个人跨个人的写作风格的变化，编写媒介和环境的变化，无法在反复编写任何数字等时保持相同的笔触。除此之外，特定语言数字的结构复杂性可能会导致HDR的模棱两可。多年来，研究人员开发了许多离线和在线HDR管道，其中不同的图像处理技术与传统的机器学习（ML）基于基于的和/或基于深度学习（DL）的体系结构相结合。尽管文献中存在有关HDR的广泛审查研究的证据，例如：英语，阿拉伯语，印度，法尔西，中文等，但几乎没有对孟加拉人HDR（BHDR）的调查，这缺乏对孟加拉语HDR（BHDR）的研究，而这些调查缺乏对孟加拉语HDR（BHDR）的研究。挑战，基础识别过程以及可能的未来方向。在本文中，已经分析了孟加拉语手写数字的特征和固有的歧义，以及二十年来最先进的数据集的全面见解和离线BHDR的方法。此外，还详细讨论了一些涉及BHDR的现实应用特定研究。本文还将作为对离线BHDR背后科学感兴趣的研究人员的汇编，煽动了对相关研究的新途径的探索，这可能会进一步导致在不同应用领域对孟加拉语手写数字进行更好的离线认识。

Due to object detection's close relationship with video analysis and image understanding, it has attracted much research attention in recent years. Traditional object detection methods are built on handcrafted features and shallow trainable architectures. Their performance easily stagnates by constructing complex ensembles which combine multiple low-level image features with high-level context from object detectors and scene classifiers. With the rapid development in deep learning, more powerful tools, which are able to learn semantic, high-level, deeper features, are introduced to address the problems existing in traditional architectures. These models behave differently in network architecture, training strategy and optimization function, etc. In this paper, we provide a review on deep learning based object detection frameworks. Our review begins with a brief introduction on the history of deep learning and its representative tool, namely Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). Then we focus on typical generic object detection architectures along with some modifications and useful tricks to improve detection performance further. As distinct specific detection tasks exhibit different characteristics, we also briefly survey several specific tasks, including salient object detection, face detection and pedestrian detection. Experimental analyses are also provided to compare various methods and draw some meaningful conclusions. Finally, several promising directions and tasks are provided to serve as guidelines for future work in both object detection and relevant neural network based learning systems.

Multilayer Neural Networks trained with the backpropagation algorithm constitute the best example of a successful Gradient-Based Learning technique. Given an appropriate network architecture, Gradient-Based Learning algorithms can be used to synthesize a complex decision surface that can classify high-dimensional patterns such as handwritten characters, with minimal preprocessing. This paper reviews various methods applied to handwritten character recognition and compares them on a standard handwritten digit recognition task. Convolutional Neural Networks, that are specifically designed to deal with the variability of 2D shapes, are shown to outperform all other techniques.Real-life document recognition systems are composed of multiple modules including eld extraction, segmentation, recognition, and language modeling. A new learning paradigm, called Graph Transformer Networks (GTN), allows such multi-module systems to be trained globally using Gradient-Based methods so as to minimize an overall performance measure.Two systems for on-line handwriting recognition are described. Experiments demonstrate the advantage of global training, and the exibility of Graph Transformer Networks.A Graph Transformer Network for reading bank check is also described. It uses Convolutional Neural Network character recognizers combined with global training techniques to provides record accuracy on business and personal checks. It is deployed commercially and reads several million checks per day.

场景文本识别低资源印度语言是挑战，因为具有多个脚本，字体，文本大小和方向等复杂性。在这项工作中，我们调查从英语到两个常见的印度语言的深度场景文本识别网络的所有层的转移学习的力量。我们对传统的CRNN模型和星网进行实验，以确保连续性。为研究不同脚本的变化影响，我们最初在使用Unicode字体呈现的综合单词图像上运行我们的实验。我们表明英语模型转移到印度语言简单的合成数据集并不实用。相反，我们建议由于其n-gram分布的相似性以及像元音和结合字符的视觉功能，因此在印度语言中应用转移学习技术。然后，我们研究了六种印度语言之间的转移学习，在字体和单词长度统计中不同的复杂性。我们还证明，从其他印度语言转移的模型的学习功能与来自英语转移的人的特征视觉更接近（并且有时甚至更好）。我们终于通过在MLT-17上实现了6％，5％，2％和23％的单词识别率（WRRS ）与以前的作品相比。通过将新颖的校正Bilstm插入我们的模型，我们进一步提高了MLT-17 Bangla结果。我们还释放了大约440个场景图像的数据集，其中包含了500古吉拉蒂和2535个泰米尔单词。在MLT-19 Hindi和Bangla Datasets和Gujarati和泰米尔数据集上，WRRS在基线上提高了8％，4％，5％和3％。

在线和离线手写的中文文本识别（HTCR）已经研究了数十年。早期方法采用了基于过度裂段的策略，但遭受低速，准确性不足和角色分割注释的高成本。最近，基于连接主义者时间分类（CTC）和注意机制的无分割方法主导了HCTR的领域。但是，人们实际上是按字符读取文本的，尤其是对于中文等意识形态图。这就提出了一个问题：无细分策略真的是HCTR的最佳解决方案吗？为了探索此问题，我们提出了一种基于细分的新方法，用于识别使用简单但有效的完全卷积网络实现的手写中文文本。提出了一种新型的弱监督学习方法，以使网络仅使用笔录注释进行训练。因此，可以避免以前基于细分的方法所需的昂贵字符分割注释。由于缺乏完全卷积网络中的上下文建模，我们提出了一种上下文正则化方法，以在培训阶段将上下文信息集成到网络中，这可以进一步改善识别性能。在四个广泛使用的基准测试中进行的广泛实验，即Casia-HWDB，Casia-Olhwdb，ICDAR2013和Scut-HCCDOC，表明我们的方法在线和离线HCTR上都显着超过了现有方法，并且表现出比CTC/ CTC/ CTC/ CTC/ CTC/速度高得多的方法。基于注意力的方法。

Leveraging the advances of natural language processing, most recent scene text recognizers adopt an encoder-decoder architecture where text images are first converted to representative features and then a sequence of characters via `sequential decoding'. However, scene text images suffer from rich noises of different sources such as complex background and geometric distortions which often confuse the decoder and lead to incorrect alignment of visual features at noisy decoding time steps. This paper presents I2C2W, a novel scene text recognition technique that is tolerant to geometric and photometric degradation by decomposing scene text recognition into two inter-connected tasks. The first task focuses on image-to-character (I2C) mapping which detects a set of character candidates from images based on different alignments of visual features in an non-sequential way. The second task tackles character-to-word (C2W) mapping which recognizes scene text by decoding words from the detected character candidates. The direct learning from character semantics (instead of noisy image features) corrects falsely detected character candidates effectively which improves the final text recognition accuracy greatly. Extensive experiments over nine public datasets show that the proposed I2C2W outperforms the state-of-the-art by large margins for challenging scene text datasets with various curvature and perspective distortions. It also achieves very competitive recognition performance over multiple normal scene text datasets.

人类行动识别是计算机视觉中的重要应用领域。它的主要目的是准确地描述人类的行为及其相互作用，从传感器获得的先前看不见的数据序列中。识别，理解和预测复杂人类行动的能力能够构建许多重要的应用，例如智能监视系统，人力计算机界面，医疗保健，安全和军事应用。近年来，计算机视觉社区特别关注深度学习。本文使用深度学习技术的视频分析概述了当前的动作识别最新识别。我们提出了识别人类行为的最重要的深度学习模型，并分析它们，以提供用于解决人类行动识别问题的深度学习算法的当前进展，以突出其优势和缺点。基于文献中报道的识别精度的定量分析，我们的研究确定了动作识别中最新的深层体系结构，然后为该领域的未来工作提供当前的趋势和开放问题。

Recently, models based on deep neural networks have dominated the fields of scene text detection and recognition. In this paper, we investigate the problem of scene text spotting, which aims at simultaneous text detection and recognition in natural images. An end-to-end trainable neural network model for scene text spotting is proposed. The proposed model, named as Mask TextSpotter, is inspired by the newly published work Mask R-CNN. Different from previous methods that also accomplish text spotting with end-to-end trainable deep neural networks, Mask TextSpotter takes advantage of simple and smooth end-to-end learning procedure, in which precise text detection and recognition are acquired via semantic segmentation. Moreover, it is superior to previous methods in handling text instances of irregular shapes, for example, curved text. Experiments on ICDAR2013, ICDAR2015 and Total-Text demonstrate that the proposed method achieves state-of-the-art results in both scene text detection and end-to-end text recognition tasks.

无约束的手写文本识别仍然具有挑战性的计算机视觉系统。段落识别传统上由两个模型实现：第一个用于线分割和用于文本线路识别的第二个。我们提出了一个统一的端到端模型，使用混合注意力来解决这项任务。该模型旨在迭代地通过线路进行段落图像线。它可以分为三个模块。编码器从整个段落图像生成特征映射。然后，注意力模块循环生成垂直加权掩模，使能专注于当前的文本线特征。这样，它执行一种隐式线分割。对于每个文本线特征，解码器模块识别关联的字符序列，导致整个段落的识别。我们在三个流行的数据集赛中达到最先进的字符错误率：ribs的1.91％，IAM 4.45％，读取2016年3.59％。我们的代码和培训的模型重量可在HTTPS：// GitHub上获得.com / fefodeeplearning / watermentattentocroc。

Scene text spotting is of great importance to the computer vision community due to its wide variety of applications. Recent methods attempt to introduce linguistic knowledge for challenging recognition rather than pure visual classification. However, how to effectively model the linguistic rules in end-to-end deep networks remains a research challenge. In this paper, we argue that the limited capacity of language models comes from 1) implicit language modeling; 2) unidirectional feature representation; and 3) language model with noise input. Correspondingly, we propose an autonomous, bidirectional and iterative ABINet++ for scene text spotting. Firstly, the autonomous suggests enforcing explicitly language modeling by decoupling the recognizer into vision model and language model and blocking gradient flow between both models. Secondly, a novel bidirectional cloze network (BCN) as the language model is proposed based on bidirectional feature representation. Thirdly, we propose an execution manner of iterative correction for the language model which can effectively alleviate the impact of noise input. Finally, to polish ABINet++ in long text recognition, we propose to aggregate horizontal features by embedding Transformer units inside a U-Net, and design a position and content attention module which integrates character order and content to attend to character features precisely. ABINet++ achieves state-of-the-art performance on both scene text recognition and scene text spotting benchmarks, which consistently demonstrates the superiority of our method in various environments especially on low-quality images. Besides, extensive experiments including in English and Chinese also prove that, a text spotter that incorporates our language modeling method can significantly improve its performance both in accuracy and speed compared with commonly used attention-based recognizers.

最近开发的图像无感测技术维持了灯具硬件和软件的优点，该软件已应用于简单的目标分类和运动跟踪。但是，在实际应用中，通常存在多个目标在视野中，其中现有的试验未能产生多语义信息。在这封信中，我们报告了一种新颖的自由感测技术，首次解决多目标识别挑战。与无图像单像素网络的卷积层堆叠不同，报告的CRNN网络实用程序双向LSTM架构可以同时预测多个字符的分布。框架可以捕获远程依赖项，提供多个字符的高识别精度。我们证明了该技术在车牌检测中的有效性，其识别精度为5％的采样率，具有高于100 FPS刷新率。

几十年来，手写的中文文本识别（HCTR）一直是一个活跃的研究主题。但是，大多数以前的研究仅关注裁剪文本图像的识别，而忽略了实际应用程序中文本线检测引起的错误。尽管近年来已经提出了一些针对页面文本识别的方法，但它们要么仅限于简单布局，要么需要非常详细的注释，包括昂贵的线条级别甚至角色级边界框。为此，我们建议Pagenet端到端弱监督的页面级HCTR。 Pagenet检测并识别角色并预测其之间的阅读顺序，在处理复杂的布局（包括多方向和弯曲的文本线路）时，这更健壮和灵活。利用所提出的弱监督学习框架，Pagenet只需要对真实数据进行注释。但是，它仍然可以在字符和线级别上输出检测和识别结果，从而避免标记字符和文本线条的界限框的劳动和成本。在五个数据集上进行的广泛实验证明了Pagenet优于现有的弱监督和完全监督的页面级方法。这些实验结果可能会引发进一步的研究，而不是基于连接主义时间分类或注意力的现有方法的领域。源代码可在https://github.com/shannanyinxiang/pagenet上获得。

在过去的几十年中，由于其在广泛的应用中，现场文本认可从学术界和实际用户获得了全世界的关注。尽管在光学字符识别方面取得了成就，但由于诸如扭曲或不规则布局等固有问题，现场文本识别仍然具有挑战性。大多数现有方法主要利用基于复发或卷积的神经网络。然而，虽然经常性的神经网络（RNN）通常由于顺序计算而遭受慢的训练速度，并且遇到消失的梯度或瓶颈，但CNN在复杂性和性能之间衡量折衷。在本文中，我们介绍了SAFL，一种基于自我关注的神经网络模型，具有场景文本识别的焦点损失，克服现有方法的限制。使用焦损而不是负值对数似然有助于模型更多地关注低频样本训练。此外，为应对扭曲和不规则文本，我们在传递到识别网络之前，我们利用空间变换（STN）来纠正文本。我们执行实验以比较拟议模型的性能与七个基准。数值结果表明，我们的模型实现了最佳性能。

从卷积神经网络的快速发展中受益，汽车牌照检测和识别的性能得到了很大的改善。但是，大多数现有方法分别解决了检测和识别问题，并专注于特定方案，这阻碍了现实世界应用的部署。为了克服这些挑战，我们提出了一个有效而准确的框架，以同时解决车牌检测和识别任务。这是一个轻巧且统一的深神经网络，可以实时优化端到端。具体而言，对于不受约束的场景，采用了无锚方法来有效检测车牌的边界框和四个角，这些框用于提取和纠正目标区域特征。然后，新型的卷积神经网络分支旨在进一步提取角色的特征而不分割。最后，将识别任务视为序列标记问题，这些问题通过连接派时间分类（CTC）解决。选择了几个公共数据集，包括在各种条件下从不同方案中收集的图像进行评估。实验结果表明，所提出的方法在速度和精度上都显着优于先前的最新方法。

Models based on deep convolutional networks have dominated recent image interpretation tasks; we investigate whether models which are also recurrent, or "temporally deep", are effective for tasks involving sequences, visual and otherwise. We develop a novel recurrent convolutional architecture suitable for large-scale visual learning which is end-to-end trainable, and demonstrate the value of these models on benchmark video recognition tasks, image description and retrieval problems, and video narration challenges. In contrast to current models which assume a fixed spatio-temporal receptive field or simple temporal averaging for sequential processing, recurrent convolutional models are "doubly deep" in that they can be compositional in spatial and temporal "layers". Such models may have advantages when target concepts are complex and/or training data are limited. Learning long-term dependencies is possible when nonlinearities are incorporated into the network state updates. Long-term RNN models are appealing in that they directly can map variable-length inputs (e.g., video frames) to variable length outputs (e.g., natural language text) and can model complex temporal dynamics; yet they can be optimized with backpropagation. Our recurrent long-term models are directly connected to modern visual convnet models and can be jointly trained to simultaneously learn temporal dynamics and convolutional perceptual representations. Our results show such models have distinct advantages over state-of-the-art models for recognition or generation which are separately defined and/or optimized.

草书手写文本识别是模式识别领域中一个具有挑战性的研究问题。当前的最新方法包括基于卷积复发性神经网络和多维长期记忆复发性神经网络技术的模型。这些方法在高度计算上是广泛的模型，在设计级别上也很复杂。在最近的研究中，与基于卷积的复发性神经网络相比，基于卷积神经网络和票面卷积神经网络模型的组合显示出较少的参数。在减少要训练的参数总数的方向上，在这项工作中，我们使用了深度卷积代替标准卷积，结合了封闭式跨跨跨性神经网络和双向封闭式复发单元来减少参数总数接受训练。此外，我们还在测试步骤中包括了基于词典的单词梁搜索解码器。它还有助于提高模型的整体准确性。我们在IAM数据集上获得了3.84％的字符错误率和9.40％的单词错误率；乔治·华盛顿数据集的字符错误率和14.56％的字符错误率和14.56％的单词错误率。

Image segmentation is a key topic in image processing and computer vision with applications such as scene understanding, medical image analysis, robotic perception, video surveillance, augmented reality, and image compression, among many others. Various algorithms for image segmentation have been developed in the literature. Recently, due to the success of deep learning models in a wide range of vision applications, there has been a substantial amount of works aimed at developing image segmentation approaches using deep learning models. In this survey, we provide a comprehensive review of the literature at the time of this writing, covering a broad spectrum of pioneering works for semantic and instance-level segmentation, including fully convolutional pixel-labeling networks, encoder-decoder architectures, multi-scale and pyramid based approaches, recurrent networks, visual attention models, and generative models in adversarial settings. We investigate the similarity, strengths and challenges of these deep learning models, examine the most widely used datasets, report performances, and discuss promising future research directions in this area.