Recognition of Multiple Characters in a Scene Image Using Arrangement of Local Features

Recognizing characters in a scene helps us obtain useful information. For the purpose, character recognition methods are required to recognize characters of various sizes, various rotation angles and complex layout on complex background. In this paper, we propose a character recognition method using local features having several desirable properties. The novelty of the proposed method is to take into account arrangement of local features so as to recognize multiple characters in an image unlike past methods. The effectiveness and possible improvement of the method are discussed.