[Question] How gt_util_synthtext_seglink.pkl is generated?

[mvoelk]

[Question] How gt_util_synthtext_seglink.pkl is generated?

[JieZou1]

Sorry, I just noticed that I should set polygon=True. Now, the training program starts running.

[seangtkelley]

Why is polygon set to False by default if the training code will fail? I just ran into this problem because I'm attempting to train the model on a custom dataset.

[mvoelk]

@seangtkelley SSD and TextBoxes work with axis aligned bounding boxes (polygon=False), but SegLink and TextBoxes++ work with oriented bounding boxes and require a different representation (polygon=True). It is probably not the most elegant solution and it may depend on your interpretation of 'default'... An alternative could be to write a separate class for the polygon case.

[AliceDinh]

I run data_synthtext.py script and the error I got is:
TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not iterable
Do you meet this error and do you know how to fix?

[mvoelk]

Have you placed the SynthText dataset at the right location? For instance ./data/SynthText/gt.mat ...

[AliceDinh]

@mvoelk Ohh I could not find the place to get SyntText dataset which is gt.mat or do I need to run another script to create that file? (If yes, what script plz?)

[AliceDinh]

I made it, thanks