Real-Time Camera-Based Recognition of Characters and Pictograms

Camera-based character recognition systems should have the capability of quick operation and recognizing perspectively distorted texts in a complex layout. In this paper, in order to realize such a system, we propose a simple but efficient implementation of camera-based recognition of characters and pictograms. With help of new hashing and voting techniques, the proposed method runs well in realtime even on a laptop PC with a web camera.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: ICDAR
• Authors: Masakazu Iwamura, Tomohiko Tsuji, Akira Horimatsu, Koichi Kise
• Keywords: Camera-based Character Recognition, Distorted Texts, Document Analysis, ICDAR 2009, Quick Operation