ADVMIX: Data Augmentation for Accurate Scene Text Spotting

Abstract

Accurate scene text spotting models ask for effective data augmentation algorithms. This paper presents a novel data augmentation algorithm called AdvMix that integrates techniques of adversarial attack and mixup. First, it utilizes the PGD method to synthesize adversarial samples. Second, it is the first work to implement feature-wise mixup between original data and the associated adversarial sample to enhance data augmentation. AdvMix has been evaluated over ICDAR2013 and ICDAR2015 datasets, showing its superior performance in improving accuracy of scene text spotting models.