Title
Computer Vision And Deep Learning Tools For The Automatic Processing Of Wasan Documents
Abstract
"Wasan" is a type of mathematical texts unique from Japan developed during the Edo period (1603-1867). These ancient documents present a wealth of knowledge and are of great cultural and historical importance. In this paper we present a fully automatic algorithm to locate a landmark element within Wasan documents. Specifically, we use classical computer vision techniques as well as deep learning tools in order to locate one particular kanji character called the "ima" kanji. Even though the problem is challenging due to the low image quality of manually scanned ancient documents and the complexity of handwritten kanji detection and recognition, our pipeline including noise reduction, orientation correction, candidate kanji region detection and kanji classification achieves a 93% success rate. Experiments run on a dataset with 373 images are presented.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.5220/0007555607570765
ICPRAM: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 8TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PATTERN RECOGNITION APPLICATIONS AND METHODS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Wasan, Document Processing, Kanji Detection, Kanji Recognition, Deep Learning
Computer science,Human–computer interaction,Artificial intelligence,Deep learning,Automatic processing,Machine learning
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yago Diez14511.50
Toya Suzuki200.34
Màrius Vila3121.36
Katsushi Waki411.12