Scene Text Synthesis for Efficient and Effective Deep Network Training

Understand

A large amount of annotated training images is critical for training accurate and robust deep network models but the collection of a large amount of annotated training images is often time-consuming and costly.

• Image synthesis alleviates this constraint by generating annotated training images automatically by machines which has attracted increasing interest in the recent deep learning research.
• We develop an innovative image synthesis technique that composes annotated training images by realistically embedding foreground objects of interest (OOI) into background images.
• The proposed technique consists of two key components that in principle boost the usefulness of the synthesized images in deep network training.