vadymhimself/crnn.pytorch.artistic

Artistic convolutional recurrent network in pytorch

Convolutional Recurrent Neural Network

This software implements the Convolutional Recurrent Neural Network (CRNN) in pytorch. Origin software could be found in crnn

Run demo

A demo program can be found in src/demo.py. Before running the demo, download a pretrained model from Baidu Netdisk or Dropbox. This pretrained model is converted from auther offered one by tool. Put the downloaded model file crnn.pth into directory data/. Then launch the demo by:

python demo.py

The demo reads an example image and recognizes its text content.

Example image:

Expected output: loading pretrained model from ./data/crnn.pth a-----v--a-i-l-a-bb-l-ee-- => available

Dependence

• warp_ctc_pytorch
• lmdb

Train a new model

1. Construct dataset following origin guide. For training with variable length, please sort the image according to the text length.
2. python crnn_main.py [--param val]. Explore crnn_main.py for details.