场景文本识别是一个流行的主题，在行业中广泛使用。尽管许多方法在封闭式文本识别挑战方面取得了令人满意的性能，但这些方法在开放式场景中丧失了可行性，在开放式场景中，收集数据或新颖性格的重新培训可能会产生高成本。例如，对外语的注释样本可能很昂贵，而每次从历史文档中发现新颖角色时，请重新训练该模型。在本文中，我们介绍并制定了一项新的开放式文本识别任务，该任务要求能够发现和识别新颖的角色而无需再培训。标签到原型学习框架也被提议作为建议任务的基准。具体而言，该框架引入了可推广的标签到原型映射功能，以构建可见和看不见类的原型（类中心）。然后使用开放式预测指标来识别或拒绝样品。在集合字符上的拒绝能力实现允许在传入数据流中自动发现未知字符。广泛的实验表明，我们的方法在各种零射击，封闭设置和开放式文本识别数据集上实现了有希望的性能

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.

近年来，深入学习的蓬勃发展的开花目睹了文本认可的快速发展。但是，现有的文本识别方法主要用于英语文本，而忽略中文文本的关键作用。作为另一种广泛的语言，中文文本识别各种方式​​都有广泛的应用市场。根据我们的观察，我们将稀缺关注缺乏对缺乏合理的数据集建设标准，统一评估方法和现有基线的结果。为了填补这一差距，我们手动收集来自公开的竞争，项目和论文的中文文本数据集，然后将它们分为四类，包括场景，网络，文档和手写数据集。此外，我们在这些数据集中评估了一系列代表性的文本识别方法，具有统一的评估方法来提供实验结果。通过分析实验结果，我们令人惊讶地观察到识别英语文本的最先进的基线不能很好地表现出对中国情景的良好。由于中国文本的特征，我们认为仍然存在众多挑战，这与英文文本完全不同。代码和数据集在https://github.com/fudanvi/benchmarking-chinese-text-recognition中公开使用。

Annotating words in a historical document image archive for word image recognition purpose demands time and skilled human resource (like historians, paleographers). In a real-life scenario, obtaining sample images for all possible words is also not feasible. However, Zero-shot learning methods could aptly be used to recognize unseen/out-of-lexicon words in such historical document images. Based on previous state-of-the-art method for zero-shot word recognition Pho(SC)Net, we propose a hybrid model based on the CTC framework (Pho(SC)-CTC) that takes advantage of the rich features learned by Pho(SC)Net followed by a connectionist temporal classification (CTC) framework to perform the final classification. Encouraging results were obtained on two publicly available historical document datasets and one synthetic handwritten dataset, which justifies the efficacy of Pho(SC)-CTC and Pho(SC)Net.

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.

这项工作提出了一个基于注意力的序列到序列模型，用于手写单词识别，并探讨了用于HTR系统数据有效培训的转移学习。为了克服培训数据稀缺性，这项工作利用了在场景文本图像上预先训练的模型，作为调整手写识别模型的起点。Resnet特征提取和基于双向LSTM的序列建模阶段一起形成编码器。预测阶段由解码器和基于内容的注意机制组成。拟议的端到端HTR系统的有效性已在新型的多作用数据集IMGUR5K和IAM数据集上进行了经验评估。实验结果评估了HTR框架的性能，并通过对误差案例的深入分析进一步支持。源代码和预培训模型可在https://github.com/dmitrijsk/attentionhtr上找到。

典型的文本检测器遵循两阶段的发现策略：首先检测文本实例的精确边界，然后在定期的文本区域内执行文本识别。尽管这种策略取得了实质性进展，但有两个基本的局限性。 1）文本识别的性能在很大程度上取决于文本检测的精度，从而导致从检测到识别的潜在误差传播。 2）桥接检测和识别的ROI种植会带来背景的噪音，并在合并或从特征地图中插值时导致信息丢失。在这项工作中，我们提出了单个镜头自力更生的场景文本sottter（SRSTS），该场景通过将识别解除识别来规避这些限制。具体而言，我们并行进行文本检测和识别，并通过共享的积极锚点架起它们。因此，即使确切的文本边界要检测到具有挑战性，我们的方法也能够正确识别文本实例。此外，我们的方法可大大降低文本检测的注释成本。在常规基准和任意形状的基准上进行了广泛的实验表明，就准确性和效率而言，我们的SRST与以前的最先进的观察者相比有利。

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。

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。

Despite significant progress in object categorization, in recent years, a number of important challenges remain; mainly, the ability to learn from limited labeled data and to recognize object classes within large, potentially open, set of labels. Zero-shot learning is one way of addressing these challenges, but it has only been shown to work with limited sized class vocabularies and typically requires separation between supervised and unsupervised classes, allowing former to inform the latter but not vice versa. We propose the notion of vocabulary-informed learning to alleviate the above mentioned challenges and address problems of supervised, zero-shot, generalized zero-shot and open set recognition using a unified framework. Specifically, we propose a weighted maximum margin framework for semantic manifold-based recognition that incorporates distance constraints from (both supervised and unsupervised) vocabulary atoms. Distance constraints ensure that labeled samples are projected closer to their correct prototypes, in the embedding space, than to others. We illustrate that resulting model shows improvements in supervised, zero-shot, generalized zero-shot, and large open set recognition, with up to 310K class vocabulary on Animal with Attributes and ImageNet datasets.

本文介绍了用于文档图像分析的图像数据集的系统文献综述，重点是历史文档，例如手写手稿和早期印刷品。寻找适当的数据集进行历史文档分析是促进使用不同机器学习算法进行研究的关键先决条件。但是，由于实际数据非常多（例如，脚本，任务，日期，支持系统和劣化量），数据和标签表示的不同格式以及不同的评估过程和基准，因此找到适当的数据集是一项艰巨的任务。这项工作填补了这一空白，并在现有数据集中介绍了元研究。经过系统的选择过程（根据PRISMA指南），我们选择了56项根据不同因素选择的研究，例如出版年份，文章中实施的方法数量，所选算法的可靠性，数据集大小和期刊的可靠性出口。我们通过将其分配给三个预定义的任务之一来总结每个研究：文档分类，布局结构或语义分析。我们为每个数据集提供统计，文档类型，语言，任务，输入视觉方面和地面真实信息。此外，我们还提供了这些论文或最近竞争的基准任务和结果。我们进一步讨论了该领域的差距和挑战。我们倡导将转换工具提供到通用格式（例如，用于计算机视觉任务的可可格式），并始终提供一组评估指标，而不仅仅是一种评估指标，以使整个研究的结果可比性。

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.

基于无人机（UAV）基于无人机的视觉对象跟踪已实现了广泛的应用，并且由于其多功能性和有效性而引起了智能运输系统领域的越来越多的关注。作为深度学习革命性趋势的新兴力量，暹罗网络在基于无人机的对象跟踪中闪耀，其准确性，稳健性和速度有希望的平衡。由于开发了嵌入式处理器和深度神经网络的逐步优化，暹罗跟踪器获得了广泛的研究并实现了与无人机的初步组合。但是，由于无人机在板载计算资源和复杂的现实情况下，暹罗网络的空中跟踪仍然在许多方面都面临严重的障碍。为了进一步探索基于无人机的跟踪中暹罗网络的部署，这项工作对前沿暹罗跟踪器进行了全面的审查，以及使用典型的无人机板载处理器进行评估的详尽无人用分析。然后，进行板载测试以验证代表性暹罗跟踪器在现实世界无人机部署中的可行性和功效。此外，为了更好地促进跟踪社区的发展，这项工作分析了现有的暹罗跟踪器的局限性，并进行了以低弹片评估表示的其他实验。最后，深入讨论了基于无人机的智能运输系统的暹罗跟踪的前景。领先的暹罗跟踪器的统一框架，即代码库及其实验评估的结果，请访问https://github.com/vision4robotics/siamesetracking4uav。

几乎所有场景文本发现（检测和识别）方法依赖于昂贵的框注释（例如，文本线框，单词级框和字符级框）。我们首次证明培训场景文本发现模型可以通过每个实例的单点的极低成本注释来实现。我们提出了一种端到端的场景文本发现方法，将场景文本拍摄作为序列预测任务，如语言建模。给予图像作为输入，我们将所需的检测和识别结果作为一系列离散令牌制定，并使用自动回归变压器来预测序列。我们在几个水平，多面向和任意形状的场景文本基准上实现了有希望的结果。最重要的是，我们表明性能对点注释的位置不是很敏感，这意味着它可以比需要精确位置的边界盒更容易地注释并自动生成。我们认为，这种先锋尝试表明了场景文本的重要机会，比以前可能的比例更大的比例更大。

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。

上下文感知的str方法通常使用内部自回旋（AR）语言模型（LM）。 AR模型的固有局限性动机是采用外部LM的两阶段方法。输入图像上外部LM的条件独立性可能导致其错误地纠正正确的预测，从而导致明显的低效率。我们的方法Parseq使用置换语言建模学习了具有共同权重的内部AR LMS集合。它统一了无上下文的非AR和上下文感知的AR推断，并使用双向上下文统一了迭代的精致。使用合成训练数据，Parseq实现了最新的（SOTA），从而获得了Str基准（精度为91.9％）和更具挑战性的数据集。在对实际数据进行培训时，它建立了新的SOTA结果（精度为96.0％）。 Parseq由于其简单，统一的结构和平行的令牌处理，对准确性与参数计数，拖放和延迟非常最佳。由于其广泛使用了注意力，它对在现实世界图像中常见的任意导向文本具有鲁棒性。代码，预处理的权重和数据可在以下网址提供：https：//github.com/baudm/parseq。

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。

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.

最近，由于其广泛的商业价值，从视觉丰富的文档（例如门票和简历）中自动提取信息已成为一个热门而重要的研究主题。大多数现有方法将此任务分为两个小节：用于从原始文档图像中获取纯文本的文本阅读部分以及用于提取密钥内容的信息提取部分。这些方法主要集中于改进第二个方法，同时忽略了这两个部分高度相关。本文提出了一个统一的端到端信息提取框架，从视觉上富含文档中提出，文本阅读和信息提取可以通过精心设计的多模式上下文块相互加强。具体而言，文本阅读部分提供了多模式功能，例如视觉，文本和布局功能。开发了多模式上下文块，以融合生成的多模式特征，甚至是从预训练的语言模型中获得的先验知识，以提供更好的语义表示。信息提取部分负责使用融合上下文功能生成密钥内容。该框架可以以端到端的可训练方式进行培训，从而实现全球优化。更重要的是，我们将视觉丰富的文档定义为跨两个维度的四个类别，即布局和文本类型。对于每个文档类别，我们提供或推荐相应的基准，实验设置和强大的基准，以弥补该研究领域缺乏统一评估标准的问题。报告了对四种基准测试的广泛实验（从固定布局到可变布局，从完整的文本到半未结构化的文本），证明了所提出的方法的有效性。数据，源代码和模型可用。

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.