Optical character recognition (OCR) using partial least square (PLS) based feature reduction: an application to artificial intelligence for biometric identification

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zainab Akhtar ◽  
Jong Weon Lee ◽  
Muhammad Attique Khan ◽  
Muhammad Sharif ◽  
Sajid Ali Khan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Character Recognition ◽  
Optical Character Recognition ◽  
Feature Reduction ◽  
Partial Least Square ◽  
Least Square ◽  
License Plate ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Optical Character ◽  
Machine Readable

PurposeIn artificial intelligence, the optical character recognition (OCR) is an active research area based on famous applications such as automation and transformation of printed documents into machine-readable text document. The major purpose of OCR in academia and banks is to achieve a significant performance to save storage space.Design/methodology/approachA novel technique is proposed for automated OCR based on multi-properties features fusion and selection. The features are fused using serially formulation and output passed to partial least square (PLS) based selection method. The selection is done based on the entropy fitness function. The final features are classified by an ensemble classifier.FindingsThe presented method was extensively tested on two datasets such as the authors proposed and Chars74k benchmark and achieved an accuracy of 91.2 and 99.9%. Comparing the results with existing techniques, it is found that the proposed method gives improved performance.Originality/valueThe technique presented in this work will help for license plate recognition and text conversion from a printed document to machine-readable.

A Structured Method for the Recognition of Complex Historical Tables

1997 ◽  
Vol 9 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 58-77
Author(s):  
Vitaly Kliatskine ◽  
Eugene Shchepin ◽  
Gunnar Thorvaldsen ◽  
Konstantin Zingerman ◽  
Valery Lazarev
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Character Recognition ◽  
Optical Character Recognition ◽  
Complex Structure ◽  
Source Material ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Tax Assessment ◽  
Optical Character ◽  
Algorithmic Model ◽  
Machine Readable

In principle, printed source material should be made machine-readable with systems for Optical Character Recognition, rather than being typed once more. Offthe-shelf commercial OCR programs tend, however, to be inadequate for lists with a complex layout. The tax assessment lists that assess most nineteenth century farms in Norway, constitute one example among a series of valuable sources which can only be interpreted successfully with specially designed OCR software. This paper considers the problems involved in the recognition of material with a complex table structure, outlining a new algorithmic model based on ‘linked hierarchies’. Within the scope of this model, a variety of tables and layouts can be described and recognized. The ‘linked hierarchies’ model has been implemented in the ‘CRIPT’ OCR software system, which successfully reads tables with a complex structure from several different historical sources.

Artificial Intelligence in Metrology Data Collection

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Schwartz ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Character Recognition ◽  
Optical Character Recognition ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Continuous Learning ◽  
Automate Data ◽  
Optical Character ◽  
Automate Data Collection ◽  
Continual Learning

Many companies have tried to automate data collection for handheld Digital Multimeters (DMM) using Optical Character Recognition (OCR). Only recently have companies tried to perform this task using Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology, Cal Lab Solutions being one of them in 2020. But when we developed our first prototype application, we discovered the difficulties of getting a good value with every measurement and test point.A year later, lessons learned and equipped with better software, this paper is a continuation of that AI project. In Beta-,1 we learned the difficulties of AI reading segmented displays. There are no pre-trained models for this type of display, so we needed to train a model. This required the testing of thousands of images, so we changed the scope of the project to a continual learning AI project. This paper will cover how we built our continuous learning AI model to show how any lab with a webcam can start automating those handheld DMMS with software that gets smarter over time.

License Plate Recognition for Stolen Vehicles Using Optical Character Recognition

2022 ◽  
pp. 575-583
Author(s):  
Armand Christopher Luna ◽  
Christian Trajano ◽  
John Paul So ◽  
Nicole John Pascua ◽  
Abraham Magpantay ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Character Recognition ◽  
Optical Character Recognition ◽  
License Plate ◽  
License Plate Recognition ◽  
Optical Character

scholarly journals Bus Attendance System using Optical Character Recognition

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 2133-2136
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Character Recognition ◽  
Optical Character Recognition ◽  
License Plate ◽  
License Plate Recognition ◽  
Surveillance Camera ◽  
Optical Character ◽  
The Neural Network ◽  
Character Extraction ◽  
Image Dataset

In today’s world managing the records of attendance of staffs, students, employee or bus is a tedious task. This project focuses on automating the bus attendance process through vehicle license plate recognition. As, the license plate is a feature that is peculiar to every vehicle, it would help in efficiently marking the bus attendance. The bus attendance system using RFID is a time consuming process. Hence we developed a project to efficiently mark attendance using number plate recognition and OCR. The system was trained using faster RCNN model with bus image dataset. The proposed system is the number plate is captured through surveillance camera and the captured image will be passed as an input to the neural network for training and the number plate will be detected. Character extraction is done using OCR and extracted character matched will be checked with the database and the attendance for particular bus will be marked.

scholarly journals Corpus Linguistics and Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-34
Author(s):  
Mikko Tolonen ◽  
Eetu Mäkelä ◽  
Ali Ijaz ◽  
Leo Lahti
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Corpus Linguistics ◽  
Character Recognition ◽  
Optical Character Recognition ◽  
Historical Source ◽  
Optical Character ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Machine Readable ◽  
Machine Readable Form

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) is the most comprehensive dataset available in machine-readable form for eighteenth-century printed texts. It plays a crucial role in studies of eighteenth-century language and it has vast potential for corpus linguistics. At the same time, it is an unbalanced corpus that poses a series of different problems. The aim of this paper is to offer a general overview of ECCO for corpus linguistics by analysing, for example, its publication countries and languages. We will also analyse the role of the substantial number of reprints and new editions in the data, discuss genres and the estimates of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) quality. Our conclusion is that whereas ECCO provides a valuable source for corpus linguistics, scholars need to pay attention to historical source criticism. We have highlighted key aspects that need to be taken into consideration when considering its possible uses.

scholarly journals Millennial loyalty towards artificial intelligence-enabled mobile banking. Evidence from Indonesian Islamic banks

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dwi Suhartanto ◽  
Moch Edman Syarief ◽  
Ade Chandra Nugraha ◽  
Tintin Suhaeni ◽  
Ambia Masthura ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Service Quality ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Partial Least Square ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Relative Advantage ◽  
Mobile Banking ◽  
Islamic Banks ◽  
Banking Services ◽  
Content Type

Purpose This study aims to examine factors driving millennial loyalty towards artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled mobile banking services in Islamic banks. Design/methodology/approach This research collected the data from 204 millennial customers of Islamic banks in Aceh, Indonesia. Partial least square (PLS) was used to evaluate the effect of service factors (the need for service and service quality), technology-based factors (attitudes towards AI, relative advantage, security and trust) and religiosity on millennial loyalty towards AI-enabled mobile banking. Findings This inquiry reveals that service quality, attitude towards AI and trust are determinants important for millennial loyalty towards AI-enabled mobile banking. Further, this research notes the significant role of religiosity on millennial loyalty towards mobile banking services. Practical implications This study suggests Islamic banks focus on developing millennial trust and attitude towards AI to increase their loyalty towards AI-enabled mobile banking services. Further, Islamic banks operation that complies with Islamic law is strongly suggested to develop millennial loyalty. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first study that tries to scrutinize loyalty towards AI-enabled mobile banking.

scholarly journals Barrier Access Control Using Sensors Platform and Vehicle License Plate Characters Recognition

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (13) ◽  
pp. 3015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farman Ullah ◽  
Hafeez Anwar ◽  
Iram Shahzadi ◽  
Ata Ur Rehman ◽  
Shizra Mehmood ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Access Control ◽  
Character Recognition ◽  
Optical Character Recognition ◽  
Character Segmentation ◽  
License Plate ◽  
License Plate Recognition ◽  
Ultrasonic Sensors ◽  
Optical Character

The paper proposes a sensors platform to control a barrier that is installed for vehicles entrance. This platform is automatized by image-based license plate recognition of the vehicle. However, in situations where standardized license plates are not used, such image-based recognition becomes non-trivial and challenging due to the variations in license plate background, fonts and deformations. The proposed method first detects the approaching vehicle via ultrasonic sensors and, at the same time, captures its image via a camera installed along with the barrier. From this image, the license plate is automatically extracted and further processed to segment the license plate characters. Finally, these characters are recognized with the help of a standard optical character recognition (OCR) pipeline. The evaluation of the proposed system shows an accuracy of 98% for license plates extraction, 96% for character segmentation and 93% for character recognition.

scholarly journals A Real-Time Automatic Plate Recognition System Based on Optical Character Recognition and Wireless Sensor Networks for ITS

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Nicole do Vale Dalarmelina ◽  
Marcio Andrey Teixeira ◽  
Rodolfo I. Meneguette
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Intelligent Transportation Systems ◽  
Character Recognition ◽  
Optical Character Recognition ◽  
Recognition System ◽  
Transportation Systems ◽  
Identification System ◽  
License Plate ◽  
Optical Character ◽  
Smart Parking

Automatic License Plate Recognition has been a recurrent research topic due to the increasing number of cameras available in cities, where most of them, if not all, are connected to the Internet. The video traffic generated by the cameras can be analyzed to provide useful insights for the transportation segment. This paper presents the development of an intelligent vehicle identification system based on optical character recognition (OCR) method to be used on intelligent transportation systems. The proposed system makes use of an intelligent parking system named Smart Parking Service (SPANS), which is used to manage public or private spaces. Using computer vision techniques, the SPANS system is used to detect if the parking slots are available or not. The proposed system makes use of SPANS framework to capture images of the parking spaces and identifies the license plate number of the vehicles that are moving around the parking as well as parked in the parking slots. The recognition of the license plate is made in real-time, and the performance of the proposed system is evaluated in real-time.

Effects of Ambient Light, Camcorder Settings, and Automated License Plate Reader Settings on Plate Transcription Rates

2002 ◽  
Vol 1804 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Plotnikov ◽  
Paul W. Shuldiner
Keyword(s):  
Character Recognition ◽  
Template Matching ◽  
Optical Character Recognition ◽  
License Plate ◽  
Ambient Light ◽  
Light Conditions ◽  
Video Images ◽  
Optical Character ◽  
Plate Reader

The ability of an automated license plate reading (ALPR) system to convert video images of license plates into computer records depends on many factors. Of these, two are readily controlled by the operator: the quality of the video images captured in the field and the internal settings of the ALPR used to transcribe these images. A third factor, the light conditions under which the license plate images are acquired, is less easily managed, especially when camcorders are used in the field under ambient light conditions. A set of experiments was conducted to test the effects of ambient light conditions, video camcorder adjustments, and internal ALPR settings on the percent of correct reads attained by a specific type of ALPR, one whose optical character recognition process is based on template matching. Images of rear license plates were collected under four ambient light conditions: overcast with no shadows, and full sunlight with the sun in front of the camcorder, behind the camcorder, and orthogonal to the line of sight. Three camcorder exposure settings were tested. Two of the settings made use of the camcorder’s internal light meter, and the third relied solely on operator judgment. The license plates read ranged from 41% to 72%, depending most strongly on ambient light conditions. In all cases, careful adjustment of the ALPR led to significantly improved read rates over those obtained by using the manufacturer’s recommended default settings. Exposure settings based on the operator’s judgment worked best in all instances.

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