Smart library book sorting application with intelligence computer vision technology

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaohua Shi ◽  
Kaicheng Tang ◽  
Hongtao Lu
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
Radio Frequency Identification ◽  
Character Recognition ◽  
Optical Character Recognition ◽  
Conveyor Belt ◽  
Identification Algorithm ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Library Book ◽  
Blurred Image ◽  
Sorting System

PurposeBook sorting system is one of specific application in smart library scenarios, and it now has been widely used in most libraries based on RFID (radio-frequency identification devices) technology. Book identification processing is one of the core parts of a book sorting system, and the efficiency and accuracy of book identification are extremely critical to all libraries. In this paper, the authors propose a new image recognition method to identify books in libraries based on barcode decoding together with deep learning optical character recognition (OCR) and describe its application in library book identification processing.Design/methodology/approachThe identification process relies on recognition of the images or videos of the book cover moving on a conveyor belt. Barcode is printed on or attached to the surface of each book. Deep learning OCR program is applied to improve the accuracy of recognition, especially when the barcode is blurred or faded. The approach the authors proposed is robust with high accuracy and good performance, even though input pictures are not in high resolution and the book covers are not always vertical.FindingsThe proposed method with deep learning OCR achieves best accuracy in different vertical, skewed and blurred image conditions.Research limitations/implicationsMethods that the authors proposed need to cooperate and practice in different book sorting machine.Social implicationsThe authors collected more than 500 books from a library. These photos display the cover of more than 100 randomly picked books with backgrounds in different colors, each of which has about five different pictures captured from variety angles. The proposed method combines traditional barcode identification algorithm with the authors’ modification to locate and deskew the image. And deep learning OCR is involved to enhance the accuracy when the barcode is blurred or partly faded. Book sorting system design based on this method will also be introduced.Originality/valueExperiment demonstrates that the accuracy of the proposed method is high in real-time test and achieves good accuracy even when the barcode is blurred. Deep learning is very effective in analyzing image content, and a corresponding series of methods have been formed in video content understanding, which can be a greater advantage and play a role in the application scene of intelligent library.

scholarly journals Toward the optimized crowdsourcing strategy for OCR post-correction

2019 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-197
Author(s):  
Omri Suissa ◽  
Avshalom Elmalech ◽  
Maayan Zhitomirsky-Geffet
Keyword(s):  
Character Recognition ◽  
Optical Character Recognition ◽  
Stage Structure ◽  
Historical Documents ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Historical Texts ◽  
Efficiency Measures ◽  
Historical Text ◽  
Amazon's Mechanical Turk

Purpose Digitization of historical documents is a challenging task in many digital humanities projects. A popular approach for digitization is to scan the documents into images, and then convert images into text using optical character recognition (OCR) algorithms. However, the outcome of OCR processing of historical documents is usually inaccurate and requires post-processing error correction. The purpose of this paper is to investigate how crowdsourcing can be utilized to correct OCR errors in historical text collections, and which crowdsourcing methodology is the most effective in different scenarios and for various research objectives. Design/methodology/approach A series of experiments with different micro-task’s structures and text lengths were conducted with 753 workers on the Amazon’s Mechanical Turk platform. The workers had to fix OCR errors in a selected historical text. To analyze the results, new accuracy and efficiency measures were devised. Findings The analysis suggests that in terms of accuracy, the optimal text length is medium (paragraph-size) and the optimal structure of the experiment is two phase with a scanned image. In terms of efficiency, the best results were obtained when using longer text in the single-stage structure with no image. Practical implications The study provides practical recommendations to researchers on how to build the optimal crowdsourcing task for OCR post-correction. The developed methodology can also be utilized to create golden standard historical texts for automatic OCR post-correction. Originality/value This is the first attempt to systematically investigate the influence of various factors on crowdsourcing-based OCR post-correction and propose an optimal strategy for this process.

Intelligent Laundry Sorting System for Rest Homes

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rose Davies ◽  
Lindsay Brazendale
Keyword(s):  
Radio Frequency Identification ◽  
Conveyor Belt ◽  
Identification Rate ◽  
Care Givers ◽  
Receiver System ◽  
Endurance Testing ◽  
Intensity Of Care ◽  
Sorting System ◽  
Drying Conditions ◽  
Time Required

Radio-frequency identification (RFID) and mechatronic technology has been applied to a laundry sorting system which can potentially be used by rest homes in the future to reduce the labour intensity of care givers, to increase the efficiency of laundry sorting, and to reduce the chance of garments being lost. A laboratory laundry identifying and sorting conveyor belt has been built. Several different types of RFID labels/tags have been considered and tested. A type of small RFID laundry tag, suitable for the laundry sorting conditions of a rest home, has been selected. The laundry tags have undergone endurance testing under actual washing and drying conditions with typical commercial laundry chemical products used in rest homes. There was a major challenge using commercial RFID tags in the proposed intelligent laundry sorting system due limitations in their antenna and signal receiving systems. A strategy to coordinate the orientations of the tags, range of the antenna, and the amplification of signal receiving units has been investigated. Several antenna designs to improve the identification rate have been tested and analysed for the selected small laundry tags, since the tag-receiver system has to work beyond the recommended range. A programme for signal detection and processing has been produced. The programme has taken into consideration the speed of the conveyor belt, antenna receiving range and the time required to process signals. It works with satisfactory precision at a satisfactory speed. A sorting strategy for implementation after laundry garment identification has been investigated. This strategy considers aspects of simplicity, multifunction and compactness of mechanical structure. A virtual sorting system has been produced to test the principles of the sorting strategy and the antenna design. The results of these tests will help us to move to the next stage, the design of a prototype laundry sorting system.

scholarly journals Pashtu Numerals Recognition through Convolutional Neural Networks

2019 ◽  
pp. 91-96
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Convolutional Neural Networks ◽  
Character Recognition ◽  
Optical Character Recognition ◽  
Recognition Accuracy ◽  
Research Use ◽  
Optical Character ◽  
Classification Tasks ◽  
Scanned Images

In the proposed paper we introduce a new Pashtu numerals dataset having handwritten scanned images. We make the dataset publically available for scientific and research use. Pashtu language is used by more than fifty million people both for oral and written communication, but still no efforts are devoted to the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) system for Pashtu language. We introduce a new method for handwritten numerals recognition of Pashtu language through the deep learning based models. We use convolutional neural networks (CNNs) both for features extraction and classification tasks. We assess the performance of the proposed CNNs based model and obtained recognition accuracy of 91.45%.

scholarly journals YORÙBÁNET: A DEEP CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK DESIGN FOR YORÙBÁ ALPHABETS RECOGNITION

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Oyeniran Oluwashina Akinloye ◽  
Oyebode Ebenezer Olukunle
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Network Design ◽  
Character Recognition ◽  
Optical Character Recognition ◽  
Recognition System ◽  
Test Set ◽  
Novel Technique ◽  
Optical Character

Numerous works have been proposed and implemented in computerization of various human languages, nevertheless, miniscule effort have also been made so as to put Yorùbá Handwritten Character on the map of Optical Character Recognition. This study presents a novel technique in the development of Yorùbá alphabets recognition system through the use of deep learning. The developed model was implemented on Matlab R2018a environment using the developed framework where 10,500 samples of dataset were for training and 2100 samples were used for testing. The training of the developed model was conducted using 30 Epoch, at 164 iteration per epoch while the total iteration is 4920 iterations. Also, the training period was estimated to 11296 minutes 41 seconds. The model yielded the network accuracy of 100% while the accuracy of the test set is 97.97%, with F1 score of 0.9800, Precision of 0.9803 and Recall value of 0.9797.

scholarly journals Recognizing Ancient Characters from Tamil Palm Leaf Manuscripts using Convolution Based Deep Learning

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 6873-6880
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Neural Networks ◽  
Image Processing ◽  
Pattern Recognition ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Convolutional Neural Networks ◽  
Character Recognition ◽  
Optical Character Recognition ◽  
Convolutional Network ◽  
Palm Leaf

Palm leaf manuscripts has been one of the ancient writing methods but the palm leaf manuscripts content requires to be inscribed in a new set of leaves. This study has provided a solution to save the contents in palm leaf manuscripts by recognizing the handwritten Tamil characters in manuscripts and storing them digitally. Character recognition is one of the most essential fields of pattern recognition and image processing. Generally Optical character recognition is the method of e-translation of typewritten text or handwritten images into machine editable text. The handwritten Tamil character recognition has been one of the challenging and active areas of research in the field of pattern recognition and image processing. In this study a trial was made to identify Tamil handwritten characters without extraction of feature using convolutional neural networks. This study uses convolutional neural networks for recognizing and classifying the Tamil palm leaf manuscripts of characters from separated character images. The convolutional neural network is a deep learning approach for which it does not need to retrieve features and also a rapid approach for character recognition. In the proposed system every character is expanded to needed pixels. The expanded characters have predetermined pixels and these pixels are considered as characteristics for neural network training. The trained network is employed for recognition and classification. Convolutional Network Model development contains convolution layer, Relu layer, pooling layer, fully connected layer. The ancient Tamil character dataset of 60 varying class has been created. The outputs reveal that the proposed approach generates better rates of recognition than that of schemes based on feature extraction for handwritten character recognition. The accuracy of the proposed approach has been identified as 97% which shows that the proposed approach is effective in terms of recognition of ancient characters.

scholarly journals Research on Deep Learning Techniques in Breaking Text-Based Captchas and Designing Image-Based Captcha

2021 ◽  
pp. 266-269
Author(s):  
Janarthanan A ◽  
Pandiyarajan C ◽  
Sabarinathan M ◽  
Sudhan M ◽  
Kala R
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
Image Classification ◽  
Character Recognition ◽  
Optical Character Recognition ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Text Recognition ◽  
Image Resizing ◽  
Optical Character ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
Text Images

Optical character recognition (OCR) is a process of text recognition in images (one word). The input images are taken from the dataset. The collected text images are implemented to pre-processing. In pre-processing, we can implement the image resize process. Image resizing is necessary when you need to increase or decrease the total number of pixels, whereas remapping can occur when you are zooming refers to increase the quantity of pixels, so that when you zoom an image, you will see clear content. After that, we can implement the segmentation process. In segmentation, we can segment the each characters in one word. We can extract the features values from the image that means test feature. In classification process, we have to classify the text from the image. Image classification is performed the images in order to identify which image contains text. A classifier is used to identify the image containing text. The experimental results shows that the accuracy.

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