Natural Scene Character Recognition Without Dependency on Specific Features

Muhammad Ali, Hassan Foroosh

2015

Abstract

Current methods in scene character recognition heavily rely on discriminative power of local features, such as HoG, SIFT, Shape Contexts (SC), Geometric Blur (GB), etc. One of the problems with this approach is that the local features are rasterized in an ad hoc manner into a single vector perturbing thus spatial correlations that carry crucial information. To eliminate this feature dependency and associated problems, we propose a holistic solution as follows: For each character to be recognized, we stack a set of training images to form a 3-mode tensor. Each training tensor is then decomposed into a linear superposition of ‘k’ rank-1 matrices, whereby the rank-1 matrices form a basis, spanning solution subspace of the character class. For a test image to be classified, we obtain projections onto the pre-computed rank-1 bases of each class, and recognize it as the class for which inner-product of mixing vectors is maximized. We use challenging natural scene character datasets, namely Chars74K, ICDAR2003, and SVT-CHAR. We achieve results better than several baseline methods based on local features (e.g. HoG) and show leave-random-one-out-cross validation yield even better recognition performance, justifying thus our intuition of the importance of feature-independency and preservation of spatial correlations in recognition.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Ali M. and Foroosh H. (2015). Natural Scene Character Recognition Without Dependency on Specific Features . In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2015) ISBN 978-989-758-090-1, pages 368-376. DOI: 10.5220/0005305603680376

in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp15,
author={Muhammad Ali and Hassan Foroosh},
title={Natural Scene Character Recognition Without Dependency on Specific Features},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2015)},
year={2015},
pages={368-376},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005305603680376},
isbn={978-989-758-090-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2015)
TI - Natural Scene Character Recognition Without Dependency on Specific Features
SN - 978-989-758-090-1
AU - Ali M.
AU - Foroosh H.
PY - 2015
SP - 368
EP - 376
DO - 10.5220/0005305603680376