Title :
A novel location method of characters in container codes
Author :
Wang, Wei ; Xie, Mei
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electron. Eng., Univ. of Electron. Sci. & Technol. of China, Chengdu, China
Abstract :
This paper presents a novel method to locate container code characters. This method is based on top-hat transformation and gray beep points. Our aim is to locate the position of container characters, to prepare for the segment and recognition of container characters. It has to deal with outdoor images. This work is part of a higher order project whose aim is automation of the entrance of a port.
Keywords :
character recognition; computer vision; freight containers; image segmentation; production engineering computing; automatic container identification; computer vision; container character position location; container character recognition; container character segmentation; container codes; gray beep points; patter recognition; top-hat transformation; Automatic control; Character recognition; Color; Computer science education; Computer vision; Containers; Educational technology; Filters; Paper technology; Pixel; character location; computer vision; gray beep points;
Conference_Titel :
Education Technology and Computer (ICETC), 2010 2nd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Shanghai
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6367-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICETC.2010.5529520
