Performance Improvement in Local Feature Based Camera-Captured Character Recognition

Abstract

Concerning camera-captured Japanese character recognition, we have proposed a method to recognize characters, both simple and complex, that may not be linearly aligned and may be printed with a complex background. Recognition is performed based on local features and their arrangement. The arrangement is validated with an algorithm called local RANSAC. However, at least four corresponding local features are required. To relax that condition, we propose a new recognition method making it possible to recognize a character region with at least three corresponding local features. This method enables recall and precision to be improved with the simpler characters using more corresponding local features and computation times to be reduced by 7%.