Recognizing natural scene characters by convolutional neural network and bimodal image enhancement

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7139 LNCS, Issue , 2012, Pages 69-82

  Zhu, Yuanping ^a   Sun, Jun ^b   Naoi, Satoshi ^b  

^a TIANJIN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Fujistu Research and Development Center Co LTD   (China)

Author keywords

bimodal image enhancement; color to gray; convolutional neural network; natural scene character recognition

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER IMAGES; COLOR-TO-GRAY; CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK; DATA CONSISTENCY; DATA SETS; GRAY SCALE; GRAY-SCALE IMAGES; NATURAL SCENE IMAGES; NATURAL SCENES; PATTERN IMAGES; RECOGNITION RATES; TEST SAMPLES;

CAMERAS; CHARACTER RECOGNITION; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); NEURAL NETWORKS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 84860797447     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-29364-1_6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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