---
license: mit
library_name: litert
pipeline_tag: image-to-image
tags:
  - litert
  - tflite
  - android
  - on-device
  - gpu
  - document-dewarping
  - document-rectification
  - document-scanning
  - real-time
---

# DewarpNet — Document unwarping (LiteRT GPU)

On-device **document dewarping / rectification** running **fully on the LiteRT
`CompiledModel` GPU** delegate (no CPU fallback). [DewarpNet](https://github.com/cvlab-stonybrook/DewarpNet)
(ICCV 2019) flattens a photographed, curved/folded document — the core of a document
scanner. Two CNNs predict a backward-mapping grid; the network runs on the GPU and the
`grid_sample` unwarp is a tiny host-side step. ~24 ms/frame on a Pixel 8a.

- **Architecture:** WCNet (UNet, world-coords) → BMNet (DenseNet, backward map) — pure CNN.
- **Weights:** [cvlab-stonybrook/DewarpNet](https://github.com/cvlab-stonybrook/DewarpNet) (doc3d) · MIT.
- **Size:** 189 MB.

![DewarpNet document dewarping](hero.png)

*Left: photographed curved page. Right: dewarped/rectified. Input photo: Unsplash (free license).*

## I/O

- **Input:** `[1, 3, 256, 256]` NCHW, **BGR**, `x/255`.
- **Output:** `[1, 2, 128, 128]` backward-mapping grid (values ~`[-1,1]`).
- **Host-side unwarp:** blur the map (3×3), resize to the original image size, then
  `grid_sample(original_image, map)` → the flattened document.

## GPU conversion

DewarpNet is a pure CNN. It converts fully GPU-compatible (**371/371 nodes on the
delegate, 1 partition**; device corr 0.999866, ~24 ms) with **two patches**: (1) the
UNet/DenseNet `ConvTranspose2d` upsamplers → **ZeroStuffConvT2d** (nearest-upsample +
stride zero-stuff mask + flipped conv; the Mali delegate rejects `TRANSPOSE_CONV`); and
(2) `Hardtanh(0,1)` → `relu(x) - relu(x-1)` (the delegate rejects `RELU_0_TO_1`). Both
are exact. CPU-exact vs PyTorch (corr 0.9999999999).

## Minimal usage

### Kotlin (Android, LiteRT CompiledModel GPU)

```kotlin
val options = CompiledModel.Options(Accelerator.GPU)
val model = CompiledModel.create(context.assets, "dewarp.tflite", options, null)
val inBufs = model.createInputBuffers()
val outBufs = model.createOutputBuffers()

inBufs[0].writeFloat(inputNCHW)          // [1,3,256,256] BGR, x/255
model.run(inBufs, outBufs)
val bm = outBufs[0].readFloat()          // [2*128*128] backward map (grid, ~[-1,1])
// host: blur 3x3, resize to image size, then bilinear grid_sample(image, bm) -> flattened doc
```

### Python (LiteRT / ai-edge-litert)

```python
import numpy as np, cv2, torch, torch.nn.functional as F
from ai_edge_litert.interpreter import Interpreter

it = Interpreter(model_path="dewarp.tflite"); it.allocate_tensors()
inp, out = it.get_input_details(), it.get_output_details()
it.set_tensor(inp[0]["index"], x)        # [1,3,256,256] float32, BGR, x/255
it.invoke()
bm = it.get_tensor(out[0]["index"])      # [1,2,128,128]
bm = np.stack([cv2.resize(cv2.blur(bm[0,0],(3,3)), (W,H)),
               cv2.resize(cv2.blur(bm[0,1],(3,3)), (W,H))], -1)[None]
flat = F.grid_sample(torch.tensor(imgorg/255.).permute(2,0,1)[None].float(),
                     torch.tensor(bm).float(), align_corners=True)   # unwarped
```

## Conversion

Converted with **litert-torch** (`build_dewarp.py`): loads the two CNNs, applies the
ZeroStuffConvT2d + clamp patches, and exports the image→backward-map graph.

## License

MIT (DewarpNet / cvlab-stonybrook). Trained on the Doc3D dataset.