• DocumentCode
    524359
  • 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
  • Volume
    3
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    22-24 June 2010
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Education Technology and Computer (ICETC), 2010 2nd International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Shanghai
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-6367-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICETC.2010.5529520
  • Filename
    5529520