Text Detection on Industrial Barrel Label with Convolutional Attention and Dual‐Branch Feature Network

Industrial barrel labels generally have low visual contrast, uneven lighting, and cluttered background, making it challenging to accurately locate text regions. This paper proposes a text detection network to solve the inaccurate localization problem based on DBNet. First, a convolutional attention mechanism is applied to the feature extraction network to get more valuable text feature maps. Then, a dual‐branch convolutional feature module is proposed in the feature pyramid to enrich contextual information. Besides, during the probability map generation stage, using a feature remodeling enhancement module to further distinguish text and text boundaries. This paper designs comparative experiments on ILTD, ICDAR2015 and MSRA‐TD500 datasets, achieve F‐measure of 92.3%, 86.0% and 84.1%, which are 2.2%, 2.3%, and 1.9% higher than DBNet, respectively. They demonstrate that our proposed method exhibits competitive performance and strong robustness. © 2024 Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan and Wiley Periodicals LLC.