Title
Multiscale Histogram of Oriented Gradient Descriptors for Robust Character Recognition
Abstract
Characters extracted from images or graphics pose a challenge for traditional character recognition techniques. The high degree of intraclass variation along with the presence of clutter makes accurate recognition difficult, yet the semantic information conveyed by sections of text within images or graphics makes their recognition an important problem. Previous work has shown that, on the two most commonly used datasets of such characters, Histogram of Oriented Gradient (HOG) descriptors have outperformed other methods. In this work we consider two extensions of the HOG descriptor to include features at multiple scales, and evaluate their performance using characters taken from images and graphics. We demonstrate that, by combining pairs of oriented gradients at different scales, it's possible to achieve an increase in performance of 12.4% and 5.6% on the two datasets.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/ICDAR.2011.219
ICDAR-1
Keywords
Field
DocType
different scale,multiple scale,high degree,important problem,accurate recognition,robust character recognition,oriented gradient descriptors,hog descriptor,traditional character recognition technique,intraclass variation,oriented gradient,multiscale histogram,previous work,feature extraction,computer graphics,text analysis,testing,histograms,image recognition,shape
Graphics,Histogram,Computer vision,Pattern recognition,Character recognition,Computer science,Clutter,Feature extraction,Semantic information,Artificial intelligence,Computer graphics,Text recognition
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1520-5363
24
0.98
References 
Authors
7
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Andrew J. Newell1894.81
Lewis D. Griffin238145.96