一种基于信息熵迁移的文本检测模型自蒸馏方法

陈建炜; 杨帆; 赖永炫

doi:10.16383/j.aas.c210598

一种基于信息熵迁移的文本检测模型自蒸馏方法

doi: 10.16383/j.aas.c210598

陈建炜^1,,
杨帆^{1, 2,},
赖永炫^3,

1.
厦门大学航空航天学院厦门 361005
2.
厦门大学深圳研究院深圳 518057
3.
厦门大学信息学院厦门 361005

基金项目: 科技创新2030——“新一代人工智能”重大项目(2021ZD0112600), 国家自然科学基金委员会面上项目(62173282, 61872154), 广东省自然科学基金(2021A1515011578), 深圳市基础研究专项面上项目(JCYJ20190809161603551)资助

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作者简介:
陈建炜：厦门大学航空航天学院硕士研究生. 主要研究方向为计算机视觉, 图像处理. E-mail: jianweichen@ stu.xmu.edu.cn

杨帆：厦门大学航空航天学院副教授. 主要研究方向为机器学习, 数据挖掘和生物信息学. 本文通信作者. E-mail: yang@xmu.edu.cn

赖永炫：厦门大学信息学院教授. 主要研究方向为大数据分析和管理, 智能交通系统, 深度学习和车载网络. E-mail: laiyx@xmu.edu.cn

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- 收稿日期: 2021-06-29
- 录用日期: 2022-02-10
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Self-distillation via Entropy Transfer for Scene Text Detection

CHEN Jian-Wei^1
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YANG Fan^{1, 2
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LAI Yong-Xuan^3
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School of Aerospace Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005
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Shenzhen Research Institute, Xiamen University, Shenzhen 518057
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School of Informatics, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005

Funds: Supported by National Key Research and Development Program of China (2021ZD0112600), National Natural Science Foundation of China (62173282, 61872154), Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (2021A1515011578), and Shenzhen Fundamental Research Program (JCYJ20190809161603551)

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CHEN Jian-Wei　Master student at the School of Aerospace Engineering, Xiamen University. His research interest covers computer vision and image processing

YANG Fan　Associate professor at the School of Aerospace Engineering, Xiamen University. His research interest covers machine learning, data mining, and bio-informatics. Corresponding author of this paper

LAI Yong-Xuan　Professor at the School of Informatics, Xiamen University. His research interest covers big data analysis and management, intelligent transportation systems, deep learning, and vehicular networks

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摘要: 前沿的自然场景文本检测方法大多基于全卷积语义分割网络, 利用像素级分类结果有效检测任意形状的文本, 其主要缺点是模型大、推理时间长、内存占用高, 这在实际应用中限制了其部署. 提出一种基于信息熵迁移的自蒸馏训练方法(Self-distillation via entropy transfer, SDET), 利用文本检测网络深层网络输出的分割图(Segmentation map, SM)信息熵作为待迁移知识, 通过辅助网络将信息熵反馈给浅层网络. 与依赖教师网络的知识蒸馏 (Knowledge distillation, KD)不同, SDET仅在训练阶段增加一个辅助网络, 以微小的额外训练代价实现无需教师网络的自蒸馏(Self-distillation, SD). 在多个自然场景文本检测的标准数据集上的实验结果表明, SDET在基线文本检测网络的召回率和F1得分上, 能显著优于其他蒸馏方法.
- 自然场景 /
- 文本检测 /
- 知识蒸馏 /
- 自蒸馏 /
- 信息熵
Abstract: Most of the state-of-the-art text detection methods in natural scenes are based on full convolutional network, which can effectively detect arbitrary shape text by using the pixel level classification results from the segmentation network. The main defects of these methods, i.e. large size of the networks, time-consuming forward reasoning and large memory occupation, hinder their deployment in practical applications. In this paper, we propose self-distillation via entropy transfer (SDET), which takes the information entropy of the segmentation map (SM) output by the deep layers of the text detection network as the knowledge to be transferred, and feeds it directly back into the shallow layers through an auxiliary network. Different from traditional knowledge distillation (KD) which relies on teacher network, SDET utilizes an auxiliary network in the training stage and realizes self-distillation (SD) at a small extra training cost. Experiments conducted on multiple standard datasets for natural scene text detection demonstrate that SDET significantly improves the recall rate and F1 score of the baseline text detection networks, and outperforms other distillation methods.
- Natural scene /
- text detection /
- knowledge distillation (KD) /
- self-distillation (SD) /
- information entropy

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图 1 可微二值化文本检测网络的分割图和信息熵图可视化

Fig. 1 Segmentation map and entropy map visualization of differentiable binarization text detection network

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图 2 不同知识蒸馏方法对比

Fig. 2 Comparison of different knowledge distillation methods

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图 3 SDET训练框架

Fig. 3 SDET training framework

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图 4 辅助网络的3种结构形式

Fig. 4 The three types of auxiliary networks

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图 5 SDET与基线模型的检测结果对比((a)真实标签; (b)基线模型检测结果; (c) SDET训练后的模型检测结果)

Fig. 5 Comparison of detection results between SDET and baseline models ((a) Ground-truth; (b) Detection results of baseline models; (c) Detection results of models trained with SDET)

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表 1 不同辅助分类器对SDET的影响 (%)

Table 1 The impact of different auxiliary classifiers on SDET (%)

模型	方法	ICDAR2013			ICDAR2015
模型	方法	P	R	F	P	R	F
MV3-EAST	基线	81.7	64.4	72.0	80.9	75.4	78.0
	A型	78.8	65.9	71.8	78.8	76.3	77.5
	B型	84.4	66.5	74.4	81.3	77.0	79.1
	C型	81.4	67.4	73.7	78.9	77.7	78.3
MV3-DB	基线	83.7	66.0	73.8	87.1	71.8	78.7
	A型	84.1	68.8	75.7	86.5	73.9	79.7
	B型	81.1	67.3	73.6	87.8	71.7	78.9
	C型	84.9	67.9	75.4	87.8	73.0	79.7

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表 2 不同特征金字塔位置对B型的影响 (%)

Table 2 The impact of different feature pyramid positions on type B (%)

方法	特征图尺寸(像素)	P	R	F
基线	—	80.9	75.4	78.0
P0	${\text{16}} \times {\text{16}}$	79.1	75.8	77.4
P1	${\text{32}} \times {\text{32}}$	79.5	76.5	78.0
P2	${\text{64}} \times {\text{64}}$	80.7	77.4	79.0
P3	${\text{128}} \times {\text{128}}$	81.3	77.0	79.1

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表 3 MV3-DB在不同数据集上的知识蒸馏实验结果(%)

Table 3 Experimental results of knowledge distillation of MV3-DB on different datasets (%)

方法	ICDAR2013			TD500			TD-TR			ICDAR2015			Total-text			CASIA-10K
方法	P	R	F	P	R	F	P	R	F	P	R	F	P	R	F	P	R	F
基线	83.7	66.0	73.8	78.7	71.4	74.9	83.6	74.4	78.7	87.1	71.8	78.7	87.2	66.9	75.7	88.1	51.9	65.3
ST	82.5	65.8	73.2	77.0	73.0	74.9	84.6	73.5	78.7	85.4	72.2	78.2	87.4	65.3	74.8	88.8	49.4	63.5
KA	82.5	66.8	73.8	79.5	71.3	75.2	86.3	72.5	78.8	85.0	73.3	78.7	85.9	66.8	75.2	87.8	51.4	64.8
FitNets	84.7	65.4	73.8	78.6	73.3	75.8	85.3	74.0	79.2	85.3	73.3	78.8	87.4	67.5	76.2	88.0	52.3	65.6
SKD	82.4	68.8	75.0	81.2	70.6	75.5	84.8	74.5	79.3	87.4	71.6	78.7	87.4	67.0	75.9	88.6	51.6	65.2
SD	83.5	67.8	74.8	79.4	72.2	75.6	85.0	74.0	79.1	85.1	73.0	78.6	87.0	67.6	76.1	87.1	52.0	65.1
SAD	82.8	66.7	73.9	78.7	72.3	75.4	87.3	72.0	78.9	86.7	72.7	79.1	86.5	67.1	75.6	88.4	50.7	64.4
本文方法	84.1	68.8	75.7	80.6	72.2	76.2	85.6	74.6	79.7	86.5	73.9	79.7	87.5	68.4	76.8	87.4	53.4	66.3

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表 4 MV3-EAST在不同数据集上的知识蒸馏实验结果(%)

Table 4 Experimental results of knowledge distillation of MV3-EAST on different datasets (%)

方法	ICDAR2013			ICDAR2015			CASIA-10K
方法	P	R	F	P	R	F	P	R	F
基线	81.7	64.4	72.0	80.9	75.4	78.0	66.1	64.9	65.5
ST	77.8	64.9	70.8	80.9	75.1	77.9	64.7	65.1	64.9
KA	78.6	64.0	70.5	78.2	76.4	77.3	67.7	63.0	65.3
FitNets	82.4	65.8	73.2	78.0	77.8	77.9	65.4	64.2	64.8
SKD	79.5	66.3	72.3	81.9	75.6	78.6	66.6	64.7	65.6
SD	80.2	63.8	71.1	79.6	74.7	77.1	66.2	63.5	64.8
SAD	81.4	65.6	72.6	80.2	76.5	78.3	65.7	64.1	64.9
本文方法	84.4	66.5	74.4	81.3	77.0	79.1	70.8	63.0	66.7

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表 5 SDET与DSN在不同数据集上的对比(%)

Table 5 Comparison of SDET and DSN on different datasets (%)

方法	ICDAR2013			TD500			TD-TR			ICDAR2015			Total-text			CASIA-10K
方法	P	R	F	P	R	F	P	R	F	P	R	F	P	R	F	P	R	F
基线	83.7	66.0	73.8	78.7	71.4	74.9	83.6	74.4	78.7	87.1	71.8	78.7	87.2	66.9	75.7	88.1	51.9	65.3
DSN	84.4	68.0	75.3	79.7	71.5	75.4	86.4	72.2	78.7	85.8	73.4	79.1	86.1	67.9	75.9	87.9	52.3	65.6
本文方法	84.1	68.8	75.7	80.6	72.2	76.2	85.6	74.6	79.7	86.5	73.9	79.7	87.5	68.4	76.8	87.4	53.4	66.3

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表 6 SDET在不同数据集上提升ResNet50-DB的效果(%)

Table 6 The effect of SDET on improving ResNet50-DB on different datasets (%)

方法	ICDAR2013			TD500			TD-TR			ICDAR2015			Total-text			CASIA-10K
方法	P	R	F	P	R	F	P	R	F	P	R	F	P	R	F	P	R	F
基线	86.3	72.9	79.0	84.1	75.9	79.8	87.3	80.4	83.7	90.3	80.1	84.9	87.7	79.4	83.3	90.1	64.7	75.3
本文方法	82.7	77.2	79.9	79.9	81.5	80.7	87.2	83.0	85.0	90.3	82.1	86.0	87.4	81.8	84.5	86.0	68.7	76.4

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