Frontiers of Optoelectronics, Volume. 13, Issue 4, 418(2020)

A CCD based machine vision system for real-time text detection

Shihua ZHAO1, Lipeng SUN1, Gang LI2, Yun LIU1, and Binbing LIU3、*
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  • 1State Grid Hunan Electric Power Corporation Limited Research Institute, Changsha 410007, China
  • 2State Grid Hunan Electric Power Corporation Limited, Changsha 410007, China
  • 3School of Optical and Electronics Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
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    Text detection and recognition is a hot topic in computer vision, which is considered to be the further development of the traditional optical character recognition (OCR) technology. With the rapid development of machine vision system and the wide application of deep learning algorithms, text recognition has achieved excellent performance. In contrast, detecting text block from complex natural scenes is still a challenging task. At present, many advanced natural scene text detection algorithms have been proposed, but most of them run slow due to the complexity of the detection pipeline and cannot be applied to industrial scenes. In this paper, we proposed a CCD based machine vision system for realtime text detection in invoice images. In this system, we applied optimizations from several aspects including the optical system, the hardware architecture, and the deep learning algorithm to improve the speed performance of the machine vision system. The experimental data confirms that the optimization methods can significantly improve the running speed of the machine vision system and make it meeting the real-time text detection requirements in industrial scenarios.

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    Shihua ZHAO, Lipeng SUN, Gang LI, Yun LIU, Binbing LIU. A CCD based machine vision system for real-time text detection[J]. Frontiers of Optoelectronics, 2020, 13(4): 418

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    Paper Information

    Category: RESEARCH ARTICLE

    Received: Aug. 28, 2018

    Accepted: Oct. 8, 2018

    Published Online: May. 14, 2021

    The Author Email: LIU Binbing (liubinxp@163.com)

    DOI:10.1007/s12200-019-0854-0

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