River Cleanliness Measured on Lots of Waste Based on Digital Image Processing Using a Deep Convolutional Neural Network

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 12-24
Author(s):  
Rafael Yuji Hirata Furusho ◽  
Francisco Assis da Silva ◽  
Leandro Luiz de Almeida ◽  
Danillo Roberto Pereira ◽  
Mário Augusto Pazoti ◽  
...  

Unlike most Western countries, which have a Latin-derived base alphabet, Japan has two syllabic alphabets called Hiragana and Katakana, and a Chinese alphabet, called Kanji. The vast differences in the writing of these Eastern alphabets to Western alphabets, Western alphabet-based OCR algorithms tend not to efficiently detect Japanese characters. This work contributes to a methodology applying digital image processing techniques, such as color range-based segmentation, edge detection and mathematical morphology techniques, to detect Japanese traffic informationalplates correctly the perspective and segment the characters contained in it. A convolutional neural network wasused to perform the classification of Hiragana characters contained in the segmented plates, withaccuracyof 94.37%.


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