Textual information within digital media can be used in many areas such as, indexing and structuring of media databases, in the aid of visually impaired, translation of foreign signs and many more. This said, mainly text can be separated into two categories in digital media as, overlay-text and scene-text. In this thesis localization and recognition of video text regardless of its category in digital media is investigated. As a necessary first step, framework of a complete system is discussed. Next, a comparative analysis of feature vector and classification method pairs is presented. Furthermore, multi-part nature of text is exploited by proposing a novel Markov Random Field approach for the classification of text/non-text regions. Additionally, better localization of text is achieved by introducing bounding-box extraction method. And for the recognition of text regions, a handprint based Optical Character Recognition system is thoroughly investigated. During the investigation of text recognition, multi-hypothesis approach for the segmentation of background is proposed by incorporating k-Means clustering. Furthermore, a novel dictionary-based ranking mechanism is proposed for recognition spelling correction. And overall system is simulated on a challenging data set. Also, a through survey on scene-text localization and recognition is presented. Furthermore, challenges are identified and discussed by providing related work on them. Scene-text localization simulations on a public competition data set are also provided. Lastly, in order to improve recognition performance of scene-text on signs that are affected from perspective projection distortion, a rectification method is proposed and simulated.

[pt] Sistemas de reconhecimento automático de placas (ALPR na sigla em inglês) são geralmente utilizados em aplicações como controle de tráfego, estacionamento, monitoração de faixas exclusivas entre outras aplicações. A estrutura básica de um sistema ALPR pode ser dividida em quatro etapas principais: aquisição da imagem, localização da placa em uma foto ou frame de vídeo; segmentação dos caracteres que compõe a placa; e reconhecimento destes caracteres. Neste trabalho focamos somente na etapa de reconhecimento. Para esta tarefa, utilizamos um Perceptron multiclasse, aprimorado pela técnica de geração de atributos baseada em entropia. Mostramos que é possível atingir resultados comparáveis com o estado da arte, com uma arquitetura leve e que permite aprendizado contínuo mesmo em equipamentos com baixo poder de processamento, tais como dispositivos móveis. / [en] ALPR systems are commonly used in applications such as traffic control, parking ticketing, exclusive lane monitoring and others. The basic structure of an ALPR system can be divided in four major steps: image acquisition, license plate localization in a picture or movie frame; character segmentation; and character recognition. In this work we ll focus solely on the recognition step. For this task, we used a multiclass Perceptron, enhanced by an entropy guided feature generation technique. We ll show that it s possible to achieve results on par with the state of the art solution, with a lightweight architecture that allows continuous learning, even on low processing power machines, such as mobile devices.

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The objective of this thesis is to provide a survey of document digitalization and to analyse the market of companies outsourcing the document digitalization. The first part of the thesis decribes the technology of scannig and the methods of document recognition and data minig. It also decribes the systems of barcodes used to identify documents. Furthermore, this thesis includes the principles of document saving and electronic (digital) signature issues from the viewpoint of Czech legislation. Its contribution lies in analysing the companies dealing with outsourcing of the document digitalization and in the view of a company using these services. A brief outlook to the future regarding this topic is included as well.

This master’s thesis deals with optical character recognition. The first part describes the basic types of optical character recognition tasks and divides algorithm into individual phases. For each phase the most commonly used methods are described in the next part. Within the character recognition phase the problematics of artificial neural networks and their usage in given phase is explained, specifically multilayer perceptron and convolutional neural networks. The second part deals with requirements definition for specific application to be used as feedback for robotic system. Convolution neural networks and CNTK library for deep learning using algorithm implementation in .NET is introduced. Finally, the test results of the individual phases of the proposed solution and the comparison with the open source Tesseract engine are discussed.

This thesis deals with the application of smart cameras and verification of its functions. In the first part the term smart camera is defined, the parts of it and the most common applications are presented. A review of smart cameras from the different manufactures on the market is made. After selection of the proper camera model three task from real industrial application are specified – inspection of capacitor print, inspection of beer label and dimension measurement. With the picked camera the tasks are performed, including the layout of workplace, scene and lighting. Further the reliability is tested together with the successfulness and the speed of designed solution.

The thesis deals with programming of application in operating system Windows. Main features of application system Microsoft Foundation Class are resumed in brief here. In following part there is idea about implementing an application with graphic user interface that makes, using schema, work with data, possible. The third part deals with implementation of blocks into dynamic linked libraries and there is outlined a possibility to use data of this programme as an external module and a possibility of realtime data processing e.g. picture and sound. The verification of a good functionality of this application is in the last part. The application is really tested in diagnosing of devaluated texts for protecting web forms www.centrum.cz. There were designed blocks making picture read possible just from internet, preprocessing, segmentation, feature extraction, evaluationg in neural network and blocks that make possible to read and save processed data into the disc.

The theme of this thesi’s deals with the detection and recognition of car license plate from pictures made of screening machine situated on a crassing or inside a car. The thesis si divided into two basic parts. First deals with searching for presence of licence plate in the picture. If the marque was found, we continue the second part of the program which identificates the found license plate. The first part of program aspires to find the licence plate by the edge detectors. The second part classifies characters by the method based on an analytical description.

This thesis is focused on optical character recognition and its processing. The goal of this application is to make it possible easily track daily expenses. It can be used by an individual or by a company as a monitoring tool. The main principle is to make this tool most as user friendly as it can be. The application gets its input from hardware, such as a scanner or camera, and analyzes the content of the cash voucher for further processing. To analyze the voucher, the application employs different optical character recognition methods. The result is subsequently parsed. Detailed explanations of used methods are inside the document. The application output is a filled database with cash voucher details. Another part of the work is an information system with the main purpose of displaying the collected data.

This thesis describes the design of the image processing for Android system, consisting of the choice of the development environment and its implementation. Workflow soluti-on to the problem involves development of the Androidapplication and it’s graphical user interface. The text includes description of the application functionality, communica-tionwith a camera, storing and retrieving data. It also describes used algo-rithms and image processing methods used for detecting values from the counter of the gas meter.