Assessing Selected CNN Models for Efficient Feature Extraction in SSD for Text Detection in Advertisement Images

Digital advertisement promotes goods and services using digital media and technology. These digital advertisement images contain  important information on the product and services being advertised and seek to persuade potential customers to take specific actions  toward contacting the advertiser. Manual extraction of information from the advertisement images is tedious and prone to errors. The  literature on text detection from images, billboards, and signposts using Single-shot detection (SSD) is vast. However, the literature has  not explored its performance for text detection on advertisement images. Therefore, there is a need to evaluate the performance of  these models on advertisement images. The performance of three selected Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) models (Resnet-50,  Mobilenetv2, and Resnet-101) with SSD for text detection in advertisement images was evaluated. A total of 400 digital advertisement  images were manually collected and annotated for use in this study. Results of comparing the performance of selected CNN models with  the SSD architecture for text detection from advertisement images showed that Resnet-50 performed well with the detection of small  texts with a mean Average Precision (mAP) of 0.736, AP(small) of 0.692 and AR(small) of 0.781.