提升古日文字符识别在印章干扰下的鲁棒性,显著降低错误率。
Seal-Robust KCR: A Robust Kuzushiji Character Recognition Framework under Seal Interference
- 融合字符检测、分类与文档修复,缓解印章遮挡影响。
- 真实测试集上字符错误率降低39.7%,合成测试集降幅达50.1%。
- 自建合成数据集模拟严重印章干扰,适合历史文献数字化研究者。
古日文(Kuzushiji)是日本古代广泛使用的草书文字系统,因其高度连笔和字形变异,现代日本人难以阅读。近年来,自动古日文字符识别(KCR)方法在较干净的历史文献图像上已取得良好性能。然而,印章常出现在古籍中,现有方法在印章重叠字符时识别精度下降。为此,本文提出一种抗印章干扰的鲁棒型KCR框架。该框架在字符检测、分类与排序基础上,引入文档修复技术以减轻印章干扰,从而提升整体识别效果。同时,提出一种新型合成数据增强策略,用于提升字符检测模型性能;并修正标注错误,重建数据集,构建合成测试集以模拟严重印章干扰。实验表明,该框架在真实测试集上相较基线与NDLkotenOCR分别降低39.7%和5.9%的字符错误率(CER),在合成测试集上分别降低50.1%和41.7%。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Kuzushiji was one of the most widely used cursive writing systems in pre-modern Japan. Due to its highly cursive forms and extensive glyph variations, most modern Japanese readers are unable to read Kuzushiji characters. Consequently, recent studies have focused on developing automated Kuzushiji character recognition (KCR) methods, which have achieved strong performance on relatively clean Japanese historical document images. Although seals frequently appear in Japanese historical documents, existing methods often fail to maintain recognition accuracy under seal interference, particularly when seals overlap with characters. To address this challenge, we propose a seal-robust KCR framework. Based on character detection, classification, and ordering, the proposed framework additionally incorporates document restoration to mitigate seal interference, thereby improving overall recognition performance. In addition, we introduce a novel synthetic data augmentation strategy to enhance the performance of character detection models. We further correct annotation errors, reconstruct the dataset, and create a synthetic test set to simulate severe seal interference. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed framework in mitigating the impact of seal interference on KCR. Compared with a conventional baseline and NDLkotenOCR, it achieves relative character error rate (CER) reductions of 39.7% and 5.9%, respectively, on the real test set, and 50.1% and 41.7%, respectively, on the synthetic test set.
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