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This paper describes an effective learning technique for optical dot-matrix characters recognition. Automatic reading system for dot-matrix character is promising for reduction of cost and labor required for quality control of products. Although dot-matrix characters are constructed by specific dot patterns, variation of character appearance due to three-dimensional rotation of printing surface, bleeding of ink and missing parts of character is not negligible. The appearance variation causes degradation of recognition accuracy. The authors propose a technique improving accuracy and robustness of dot-matrix character recognition against such variation, using variation model based learning. The variation model based learning generates training samples containing four types of appearance variation and trains a Modified Quadratic Discriminant Function (MQDF) classifier using generated samples. The effectiveness of the proposed learning technique is empirically evaluated with a dataset which contains 38 classes (2030 character samples) captured from actual products by standard digital cameras. The recognition accuracy has been improved from 78.37 % to 98.52 % by introducing the variation model based learning.
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A part of this research is supported by OMRON Corporation.
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Endo, K., Ohyama, W., Wakabayashi, T., Kimura, F. (2015). Performance Improvement of Dot-Matrix Character Recognition by Variation Model Based Learning. In: Jawahar, C., Shan, S. (eds) Computer Vision - ACCV 2014 Workshops. ACCV 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9009. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16631-5_11
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