CUSTOM OCR TRAINING

Strange. Let me see if I can reproduce what you are seeing here. Will circle back shortly.

I can't seem to replicate the version error here. For me it is just running:

So here are the commands I did to get it to run:

cd ~/depthai-experiments/gen2-ocr
git checkout master
git pull
python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt
python3 main.py 

Could you try doing these in sequence? And actually, to make sure that the other version of depthai installed, could you do this sequence:

python3 -m pip uninstall depthai
cd ~/depthai-experiments/gen2-ocr
git checkout master
git pull
python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt
python3 main.py 

I just repeated that whole sequence to be sure, and it works. I'm wondering if something has locked an incorrect version of depthai on the system. If this doesn't work, would it be OK to do a TeamViewer session to debug?

If so, please shoot us an email at support@luxonis.com to coordinate the session.

Thanks - and sorry about the trouble.
-Brandon

I used all commands you provided in last message and it didn't work for me on both my Windows PC's. I'll try to run it on my Macbok Air and connect via email. Thanks for your support!

asidsunrise Thanks. Very strange. Perhaps our CI/CD didn't properly build for Windows for this example. Will be curious to find out.

Brandon Well, I tried to run it on my Macbook and got the same error. The re-installing depthai version didn't help. If it could help to find a problem it will be OK to use TeamViewer, but I'm not sure it is possible in the next 2-3 days.

Hi, same issue on my iMac under Catalina (macOS 10.15.7)...

Thanks and sorry about the delay, both. So could you please send an email to support@luxonis.com to facilitate a teamviewer to see what is happening here?

I'll try this again now on my iMac as well.

Thanks and sorry again about the delay (so far behind on shipping issues in Europe),
Brandon

Hi @Will ,

So I was able to replicate this with the version that was checked out on my iMac. Steps:

cd ~/depthai-experiments/gen2-ocr 
python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt

Which produced:

Looking in indexes: https://pypi.org/simple, https://artifacts.luxonis.com/artifactory/luxonis-python-snapshot-local
Requirement already satisfied: numpy==1.19.5 in /Users/leeroy/Library/Python/3.9/lib/python/site-packages (from -r requirements.txt (line 1)) (1.19.5)
Requirement already satisfied: opencv-python==4.5.1.48 in /Users/leeroy/Library/Python/3.9/lib/python/site-packages (from -r requirements.txt (line 2)) (4.5.1.48)
Collecting depthai==0.0.2.1+e88c98c8a7681dd16cd754a832df1165380ac305
  Using cached https://artifacts.luxonis.com/artifactory/luxonis-python-snapshot-local/depthai/depthai-0.0.2.1%2Be88c98c8a7681dd16cd754a832df1165380ac305-cp39-cp39-macosx_10_9_x86_64.whl (4.3 MB)
Installing collected packages: depthai
  Attempting uninstall: depthai
    Found existing installation: depthai 0.4.1.1
    Uninstalling depthai-0.4.1.1:
      Successfully uninstalled depthai-0.4.1.1
Successfully installed depthai-0.0.2.1+e88c98c8a7681dd16cd754a832df1165380ac305

And then I ran:

python3 main.py

Which resulted in:

/Users/leeroy/depthai-experiments/gen2-ocr/main.py:15: DeprecationWarning: setCamId() is deprecated, use setBoardSocket() instead.
  colorCam.setCamId(0)
libc++abi.dylib: terminating with uncaught exception of type std::runtime_error: XLink write error, error message: X_LINK_ERROR
zsh: abort      python3 main.py

I am now updating the repo with git pull on the master branch to check if this improves it.

Same error:

python3 main.py                           
/Users/leeroy/depthai-experiments/gen2-ocr/main.py:15: DeprecationWarning: setCamId() is deprecated, use setBoardSocket() instead.
  colorCam.setCamId(0)
libc++abi.dylib: terminating with uncaught exception of type std::runtime_error: XLink write error, error message: X_LINK_ERROR
zsh: abort      python3 main.py

So I am checking with the team now. The fact that I can reproduce this is good as I think we will now be able to fix it quickly.

Thanks and sorry about the issues here.

-Brandon

Dear Brandon:

we are using OAK-1 with EAST with text_recognition_0012 as demo video shown:


and source code below :

So far we are satisfy the

we have a request is we want to add ROI function and combine with source code， then it could judge OCR ok or ng only inside of ROI , of course we can adjust ROI by execute CMD .
Please assist us to realize the above function ,

all the best~~

Dear erik:

Yes~_you are right
as attached picture content is using text_recognition_0012 results that you couldn't seen by google video:

As we know EAST OCR is 1080p resolution and getting all of text of whole paper.
but our customer want only setting their own ROI and could adjust size of ROI ,finally running OCR inside ROI.

for example like COGNEX OCR (shown red ROI):

We have three ideas:

1. We would like to use IMREAD_UNCHANGE to cutoff picture ,and imshow
   

2. Change the aspect ratio (stretch the image)
   Apply letterboxing to the image,
   as below:
   https://docs.luxonis.com/projects/api/en/latest/tutorials/maximize_fov/

3. SpatialLocationCalculator
   to create ROI and combine with text_recognition
   https://docs.luxonis.com/projects/api/en/latest/components/nodes/spatial_location_calculator/

Please assist us which method could be match our goal??

all the best~~

Hello king , let me ask our ML engineer to suggest the best approach for this issue.
Thanks, Erik

Hey @king , so if I understand correctly, you do not need actual test detection, only test recognition? And you want to set a custom ROI?

If that is so, you could use our ImageManip node, where you can set the ROI to some rectangle by providing the points for ROI and then resize the image so that it has correct shape for input to recognition network. Then you would have to link this ImageManip node to a Neural Network node that performs text recognition as in OCR example.

So you could try editing this part of the code to use custom defined ROI instead of ROI from detections from the whole image. Which means you could skip the first NN node, but keep the rest the same.

Does this make sense?

Dear Matija:

Thanks for your suggestion of custom ROI~ our target is not only text recognition but also ROI settings and running inside of ROI.

We will follow your ImageManip ndoe and and compile it with text recognition first . maybe there are good results for us.

all the best~~

Dear Matija and erik:

We could create ROI of 256x256 pixels due to east_text_detection_256x256 , but the results will be Influenced in black OCR and it cause incorrect results whc sometimes as below picture red frame :

could you please assist us how to solve the issue ??

all the best~~

Hey, you could manually increase these two lines, so a larger are is cropped: https://github.com/luxonis/depthai-experiments/blob/master/gen2-ocr/main.py#L241-L242.

I found out that rotate crops are slightly incorrect, but should be fixed with the ImageManip refactor which will be released soon. For now you can try increasing the width and height manually in the above lines, like:

rr.size.width  = int(rotated_rect[1][0] * 1.1)
rr.size.height = int(rotated_rect[1][1] * 1.1)

This will increase width and height for 10%.

Best,
Matija

Dear LUXonis partners :
We have OCR case as google drive as below and picture:

We want to check each OCR SET/CAN/RES , but results is still fail due to influence by pattern of + and -
we try every methods as you suggestion before (include rr.size.widthrr.size.height )but`still can't solve our customer needed.
This case our customer have 10pcs OAK-1 request, if we can solve the issue. maybe create a background pictures with any color code into gen2-OCR and combine with modifying EAST. but we don't know how to modify it yet~~
If you have a good solution for our case we can discuss more detail cooperation methods~

all the beat~~

king If you are limited to a set of these 3 words only, you could just filter them out with some distance metric or just check if the word is contained in the result. SET is in SSET, so you can know that SSET likely refers to SET, similarly CAN is in ICAN and RES in RESE.

If you are looking at other words as well, it's going to be hard to eliminate this + sign. You could try decreasing the factor by which you increase the width.

With image refactor that we are working on, I think the rotated squares should be cropped out better, but don't hold my word for it. I'll report some results when I'll be able to test it out. Until then, I propose you use one of the two approaches I mentioned above.

Best,
Matija

Dear Matija:

Thanks for your support of ROI OCR upgrade in this case ,we sincere that's could solve in this case , also we would like to know how long we could get the upgrade results??

all the best~~