/********************************************************************** * File: beam_search.h * Description: Declaration of Beam Word Search Algorithm Class * Author: Ahmad Abdulkader * Created: 2007 * * (C) Copyright 2008, Google Inc. ** Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); ** you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. ** You may obtain a copy of the License at ** http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 ** Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software ** distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, ** WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. ** See the License for the specific language governing permissions and ** limitations under the License. * **********************************************************************/ // The Beam Search class implements a Beam Search algorithm for the // N-best paths through the lattice of a search object using a language model // The search object is a segmented bitmap of a word image. The language model // is a state machine that defines valid sequences of characters // The cost of each path is the combined (product) probabilities of the // characters along the path. The character probabilities are computed using // the character classifier member of the RecoContext // The BeamSearch class itself holds the state of the last search it performed // using its "Search" method. Subsequent class to the Search method erase the // states of previously done searches #ifndef BEAM_SEARCH_H #define BEAM_SEARCH_H #include "search_column.h" #include "word_altlist.h" #include "search_object.h" #include "lang_model.h" #include "cube_utils.h" #include "cube_reco_context.h" #include "allheaders.h" namespace tesseract { class BeamSearch { public: explicit BeamSearch(CubeRecoContext *cntxt, bool word_mode = true); ~BeamSearch(); // Performs a beam search in the specified search using the specified // language model; returns an alternate list of possible words as a result. WordAltList *Search(SearchObject *srch_obj, LangModel *lang_mod = NULL); // Returns the best node in the last column of last performed search. SearchNode *BestNode() const; // Returns the string corresponding to the specified alt. char_32 *Alt(int alt) const; // Backtracks from the specified lattice node and returns the corresponding // character-mapped segments, character count, char_32 result string, and // character bounding boxes (if char_boxes is not NULL). If the segments // cannot be constructed, returns NULL, and all result arguments // will be NULL. CharSamp **BackTrack(SearchObject *srch_obj, int node_index, int *char_cnt, char_32 **str32, Boxa **char_boxes) const; // Same as above, except it takes a pointer to a search node object // instead of node index. CharSamp **BackTrack(SearchObject *srch_obj, SearchNode *node, int *char_cnt, char_32 **str32, Boxa **char_boxes) const; // Returns the size cost of a specified string of a lattice // path that ends at the specified lattice node. int SizeCost(SearchObject *srch_obj, SearchNode *node, char_32 **str32 = NULL) const; // Returns the word unigram cost of the given string, possibly // stripping out a single trailing punctuation character. int WordUnigramCost(char_32 *str32, WordUnigrams* word_unigrams) const; // Supplementary functions needed for visualization // Return column count of the lattice. inline int ColCnt() const { return col_cnt_; } // Returns the lattice column corresponding to the specified column index. SearchColumn *Column(int col_idx) const; // Return the index of the best node in the last column of the // best-cost path before the alternates list is sorted. inline int BestPresortedNodeIndex() const { return best_presorted_node_idx_; } private: // Maximum reasonable segmentation point count static const int kMaxSegPointCnt = 128; // Recognition context object; the context holds the character classifier // and the tuning parameters object CubeRecoContext *cntxt_; // Count of segmentation pts int seg_pt_cnt_; // Lattice column count; currently redundant with respect to seg_pt_cnt_ // but that might change in the future int col_cnt_; // Array of lattice columns SearchColumn **col_; // Run in word or phrase mode bool word_mode_; // Node index of best-cost node, before alternates are merged and sorted int best_presorted_node_idx_; // Cleans up beam search state void Cleanup(); // Creates a Word alternate list from the results in the lattice. // This function computes a cost for each node in the final column // of the lattice, which is a weighted average of several costs: // size cost, character bigram cost, word unigram cost, and // recognition cost from the beam search. The weights are the // CubeTuningParams, which are learned together with the character // classifiers. WordAltList *CreateWordAltList(SearchObject *srch_obj); // Creates a set of children nodes emerging from a parent node based on // the character alternate list and the language model. void CreateChildren(SearchColumn *out_col, LangModel *lang_mod, SearchNode *parent_node, LangModEdge *lm_parent_edge, CharAltList *char_alt_list, int extra_cost); // Backtracks from the given lattice node and returns the corresponding // char mapped segments, character count, and character bounding boxes (if // char_boxes is not NULL). If the segments cannot be constructed, // returns NULL, and all result arguments will be NULL. CharSamp **SplitByNode(SearchObject *srch_obj, SearchNode *srch_node, int* char_cnt, Boxa **char_boxes) const; }; } #endif // BEAM_SEARCH_H