Browsing by Author "Wang, Yintong"

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    End-to-end handwritten Chinese paragraph text recognition using residual attention networks
    (Tech Science Press, 2022-04-15) Wang, Yintong; Yang, Yingjie; Chen, Haiyan; Zheng, Hao; Chang, Heyou
    Handwritten Chinese recognition which involves variant writing style, thousands of character categories and monotonous data mark process is a long term focus in the field of pattern recognition research. The existing methods are facing huge challenges including the complex structure of character/line-touching, the discriminate ability of similar characters and the labeling of training datasets. To deal with these challenges, an end-to-end residual attention handwritten Chinese paragraph text recognition method is proposed, which uses fully convolutional neural networks as the main structure of feature extraction and employs connectionist temporal classification as a loss function. The novel residual attention gate block is more helpful in extracting essential features and making the training of deep convolutional neural networks more effective. In addition, we introduce the operations of batch bilinear interpolation which implement the mapping of two dimension text representation to one dimension text line representation without any position information of characters or text lines, and greatly reduce the labeling workload in preparing training datasets. In experimental, the proposed method is verified with two widely adopted handwritten Chinese text datasets, and achieves competitive results to the current state-of-the-art methods. Without using any position information of characters and text line, an accuracy rate of 90.53% is obtained in CASIA-HWDB test set.
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    A residual-attention offline handwritten Chinese text recognition based on fully convolutional neural networks
    (IEEE, 2021-09-24) Wang, Yintong; Yang, Yingjie; Ding, Weiping; Li, Shuo
    Offline handwritten Chinese text recognition is one of the most challenging tasks in that it involves various writing styles, complex character-touching, and large number of character categories. In this paper, we propose a residual-attention offline handwritten Chinese text recognition based on fully convolutional neural networks, which is segmentation-free handwritten recognition that avoids the impact of incorrect character segmentation. By designing a smart residual attention gate block, our model can help to extract important features, and effectively implement the training of deep convolutional neural networks. Furthermore, we deploy an expansion factor to indicate the trade-off between computing resources for model training and the ability of a gradient to propagate across multiple layers, and make our model training adapt to different computing platforms. Experiments on the CASIA-HWDB and ICDAR-2013 competition dataset show that our method achieves a competitive performance on offline handwritten Chinese text recognition. On the CASIA-HWDB test set, the character-level accurate rate and correct rate achieve 97.32% and 97.90% respectively