Detecting and recognizing text from natural scene images presents a challenge because the image quality depends on the conditions in which the image is captured,such as viewing angles,blurring,sensor noise,etc.However...Detecting and recognizing text from natural scene images presents a challenge because the image quality depends on the conditions in which the image is captured,such as viewing angles,blurring,sensor noise,etc.However,in this paper,a prototype for text detection and recognition from natural scene images is proposed.This prototype is based on the Raspberry Pi 4 and the Universal Serial Bus(USB)camera and embedded our text detection and recognition model,which was developed using the Python language.Our model is based on the deep learning text detector model through the Efficient and Accurate Scene Text Detec-tor(EAST)model for text localization and detection and the Tesseract-OCR,which is used as an Optical Character Recognition(OCR)engine for text recog-nition.Our prototype is controlled by the Virtual Network Computing(VNC)tool through a computer via a wireless connection.The experiment results show that the recognition rate for the captured image through the camera by our prototype can reach 99.75%with low computational complexity.Furthermore,our proto-type is more performant than the Tesseract software in terms of the recognition rate.Besides,it provides the same performance in terms of the recognition rate with a huge decrease in the execution time by an average of 89%compared to the EasyOCR software on the Raspberry Pi 4 board.展开更多
Digit recognition from a natural scene text in video surveillance/broadcasting applications is a challenging research task due to blurred, font variations, twisted, and non-uniform color distribution issues with a dig...Digit recognition from a natural scene text in video surveillance/broadcasting applications is a challenging research task due to blurred, font variations, twisted, and non-uniform color distribution issues with a digit in a natural scene to be recognized. In this paper, to solve the digit number recognition problem, a principal-axis based topology contour descriptor with support vector machine (SVM) classification is proposed. The contributions of this paper include: a) a local descriptor with SVM classification for digit recognition, b) higher accuracy than the state-of-the art methods, and c) low computational power (0.03 second/digit recognition), which make this method adoptable to real-time applications.展开更多
In today’s real world, an important research part in image processing isscene text detection and recognition. Scene text can be in different languages,fonts, sizes, colours, orientations and structures. Moreover, the...In today’s real world, an important research part in image processing isscene text detection and recognition. Scene text can be in different languages,fonts, sizes, colours, orientations and structures. Moreover, the aspect ratios andlayouts of a scene text may differ significantly. All these variations appear assignificant challenges for the detection and recognition algorithms that are consideredfor the text in natural scenes. In this paper, a new intelligent text detection andrecognition method for detectingthe text from natural scenes and forrecognizingthe text by applying the newly proposed Conditional Random Field-based fuzzyrules incorporated Convolutional Neural Network (CR-CNN) has been proposed.Moreover, we have recommended a new text detection method for detecting theexact text from the input natural scene images. For enhancing the presentation ofthe edge detection process, image pre-processing activities such as edge detectionand color modeling have beenapplied in this work. In addition, we have generatednew fuzzy rules for making effective decisions on the processes of text detectionand recognition. The experiments have been directedusing the standard benchmark datasets such as the ICDAR 2003, the ICDAR 2011, the ICDAR2005 and the SVT and have achieved better detection accuracy intext detectionand recognition. By using these three datasets, five different experiments havebeen conducted for evaluating the proposed model. And also, we have comparedthe proposed system with the other classifiers such as the SVM, the MLP and theCNN. In these comparisons, the proposed model has achieved better classificationaccuracywhen compared with the other existing works.展开更多
Scene text recognition(STR)is the task of recognizing character sequences in natural scenes.Although STR method has been greatly developed,the existing methods still can't recognize any shape of text,such as very ...Scene text recognition(STR)is the task of recognizing character sequences in natural scenes.Although STR method has been greatly developed,the existing methods still can't recognize any shape of text,such as very rich curve text or rotating text in daily life,irregular scene text has complex layout in two-dimensional space,which is used to recognize scene text in the past Recently,some recognizers correct irregular text to regular text image with approximate 1D layout,or convert 2D image feature mapping to one-dimensional feature sequence.Although these methods have achieved good performance,their robustness and accuracy are limited due to the loss of spatial information in the process of two-dimensional to one-dimensional transformation.In this paper,we proposes a framework to directly convert the irregular text of two-dimensional layout into character sequence by using the relationship attention module to capture the correlation of feature mapping Through a large number of experiments on multiple common benchmarks,our method can effectively identify regular and irregular scene text,and is superior to the previous methods in accuracy.展开更多
自然场景文本识别是计算机视觉领域的研究热点之一,在无人驾驶、图像检索、机器人导航等领域具有广泛的应用前景.由于自然场景中的文本图像存在背景复杂、透视失真、过度弯曲等现象,给文本识别带来了巨大的挑战.针对上述问题,本文提出...自然场景文本识别是计算机视觉领域的研究热点之一,在无人驾驶、图像检索、机器人导航等领域具有广泛的应用前景.由于自然场景中的文本图像存在背景复杂、透视失真、过度弯曲等现象,给文本识别带来了巨大的挑战.针对上述问题,本文提出了一种基于多路并行的位置关联网络(Multi-Path Parallel Location Association Network,MPLAN)的自然场景文本识别方法.首先,针对不规则文本图像,MPLAN使用文本矫正网络自适应学习图像变换,从而获得线性排列的文本图像.其次,为了捕获字符间的位置信息,MPLAN提出了位置关联模块,利用序列特征的有序性,通过捕获字符位置信息,以提高序列特征与目标字符的对齐准确度.此外,为了增强字符间的语义相关性,MPLAN提出了基于多路传输思想的并行注意力模块,获取全局语义信息,实现序列特征的上下文通信,从而锁定有效字符的位置.在包括规则文本、不规则文本在内的六个数据集上的实验结果表明,MPLAN能够有效利用位置信息与全局语义信息解码字符序列,特别是在识别不规则文本上取得了领先的性能.展开更多
提出了一个视觉增强的双分支识别模型(double branches recognition model with visual enhancement, DBVE).该模型包括视觉识别分支和注意力识别分支,前者使用视觉增强网络生成的视觉特征预测字符概率,后者先通过Bi-LSTM获取语义信息,...提出了一个视觉增强的双分支识别模型(double branches recognition model with visual enhancement, DBVE).该模型包括视觉识别分支和注意力识别分支,前者使用视觉增强网络生成的视觉特征预测字符概率,后者先通过Bi-LSTM获取语义信息,再由特征融合模块连接视觉信息与语义信息,继而用注意力机制预测字符概率.用高斯核函数替换了会造成二次复杂度的softmax函数,并进一步用Nystorm方法解决了高斯核不收敛的问题.实验表明,与基线模型相比,DBVE在不规则文本数据集CUTE上的识别精度提高了9.1%,在多个数据集上的平均推断效率提升了2.7倍,而在语义无关数据集RandText上的识别精度比语义增强方法SEED高约18%.展开更多
基金This work was funded by the Deanship of Scientific Research at Jouf University(Kingdom of Saudi Arabia)under Grant No.DSR-2021-02-0392.
文摘Detecting and recognizing text from natural scene images presents a challenge because the image quality depends on the conditions in which the image is captured,such as viewing angles,blurring,sensor noise,etc.However,in this paper,a prototype for text detection and recognition from natural scene images is proposed.This prototype is based on the Raspberry Pi 4 and the Universal Serial Bus(USB)camera and embedded our text detection and recognition model,which was developed using the Python language.Our model is based on the deep learning text detector model through the Efficient and Accurate Scene Text Detec-tor(EAST)model for text localization and detection and the Tesseract-OCR,which is used as an Optical Character Recognition(OCR)engine for text recog-nition.Our prototype is controlled by the Virtual Network Computing(VNC)tool through a computer via a wireless connection.The experiment results show that the recognition rate for the captured image through the camera by our prototype can reach 99.75%with low computational complexity.Furthermore,our proto-type is more performant than the Tesseract software in terms of the recognition rate.Besides,it provides the same performance in terms of the recognition rate with a huge decrease in the execution time by an average of 89%compared to the EasyOCR software on the Raspberry Pi 4 board.
基金supported by“MOST”under Grant No.105-2221-E-119-001
文摘Digit recognition from a natural scene text in video surveillance/broadcasting applications is a challenging research task due to blurred, font variations, twisted, and non-uniform color distribution issues with a digit in a natural scene to be recognized. In this paper, to solve the digit number recognition problem, a principal-axis based topology contour descriptor with support vector machine (SVM) classification is proposed. The contributions of this paper include: a) a local descriptor with SVM classification for digit recognition, b) higher accuracy than the state-of-the art methods, and c) low computational power (0.03 second/digit recognition), which make this method adoptable to real-time applications.
文摘In today’s real world, an important research part in image processing isscene text detection and recognition. Scene text can be in different languages,fonts, sizes, colours, orientations and structures. Moreover, the aspect ratios andlayouts of a scene text may differ significantly. All these variations appear assignificant challenges for the detection and recognition algorithms that are consideredfor the text in natural scenes. In this paper, a new intelligent text detection andrecognition method for detectingthe text from natural scenes and forrecognizingthe text by applying the newly proposed Conditional Random Field-based fuzzyrules incorporated Convolutional Neural Network (CR-CNN) has been proposed.Moreover, we have recommended a new text detection method for detecting theexact text from the input natural scene images. For enhancing the presentation ofthe edge detection process, image pre-processing activities such as edge detectionand color modeling have beenapplied in this work. In addition, we have generatednew fuzzy rules for making effective decisions on the processes of text detectionand recognition. The experiments have been directedusing the standard benchmark datasets such as the ICDAR 2003, the ICDAR 2011, the ICDAR2005 and the SVT and have achieved better detection accuracy intext detectionand recognition. By using these three datasets, five different experiments havebeen conducted for evaluating the proposed model. And also, we have comparedthe proposed system with the other classifiers such as the SVM, the MLP and theCNN. In these comparisons, the proposed model has achieved better classificationaccuracywhen compared with the other existing works.
文摘Scene text recognition(STR)is the task of recognizing character sequences in natural scenes.Although STR method has been greatly developed,the existing methods still can't recognize any shape of text,such as very rich curve text or rotating text in daily life,irregular scene text has complex layout in two-dimensional space,which is used to recognize scene text in the past Recently,some recognizers correct irregular text to regular text image with approximate 1D layout,or convert 2D image feature mapping to one-dimensional feature sequence.Although these methods have achieved good performance,their robustness and accuracy are limited due to the loss of spatial information in the process of two-dimensional to one-dimensional transformation.In this paper,we proposes a framework to directly convert the irregular text of two-dimensional layout into character sequence by using the relationship attention module to capture the correlation of feature mapping Through a large number of experiments on multiple common benchmarks,our method can effectively identify regular and irregular scene text,and is superior to the previous methods in accuracy.
文摘自然场景文本识别是计算机视觉领域的研究热点之一,在无人驾驶、图像检索、机器人导航等领域具有广泛的应用前景.由于自然场景中的文本图像存在背景复杂、透视失真、过度弯曲等现象,给文本识别带来了巨大的挑战.针对上述问题,本文提出了一种基于多路并行的位置关联网络(Multi-Path Parallel Location Association Network,MPLAN)的自然场景文本识别方法.首先,针对不规则文本图像,MPLAN使用文本矫正网络自适应学习图像变换,从而获得线性排列的文本图像.其次,为了捕获字符间的位置信息,MPLAN提出了位置关联模块,利用序列特征的有序性,通过捕获字符位置信息,以提高序列特征与目标字符的对齐准确度.此外,为了增强字符间的语义相关性,MPLAN提出了基于多路传输思想的并行注意力模块,获取全局语义信息,实现序列特征的上下文通信,从而锁定有效字符的位置.在包括规则文本、不规则文本在内的六个数据集上的实验结果表明,MPLAN能够有效利用位置信息与全局语义信息解码字符序列,特别是在识别不规则文本上取得了领先的性能.
文摘提出了一个视觉增强的双分支识别模型(double branches recognition model with visual enhancement, DBVE).该模型包括视觉识别分支和注意力识别分支,前者使用视觉增强网络生成的视觉特征预测字符概率,后者先通过Bi-LSTM获取语义信息,再由特征融合模块连接视觉信息与语义信息,继而用注意力机制预测字符概率.用高斯核函数替换了会造成二次复杂度的softmax函数,并进一步用Nystorm方法解决了高斯核不收敛的问题.实验表明,与基线模型相比,DBVE在不规则文本数据集CUTE上的识别精度提高了9.1%,在多个数据集上的平均推断效率提升了2.7倍,而在语义无关数据集RandText上的识别精度比语义增强方法SEED高约18%.