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I am new to TensorFlow and to Deep Learning.
I am trying to recognize text in naturel scene images. I used to work with an OCR but I would like to use Deep Learning. The text has always the same format :
ABC-DEF 88:88.
What I have done is recognize every character/digit. It means that I cropped the image around every character (so each picture gives me 10 characters) to build my training and test set and they build a two conv neural networks. So my training set was a set of characters pictures and the labels were just characters/digits.
But I want to go further. What I would like to do is just to give the full pictures and output the entire text (not one character such as in my previous model).
Thank you in advance for any help.
The difficulty is that you don't know where the text is. The solution is, given an image, you need to use a sliding window to crop different part of the image, then use a classifier to decide if there are texts in the cropped area. If so, use your character/digit recognizer to tell which characters/digits they really are.
So you need to train another classifer: given a cropped image (the size of cropped images should be slightly larger than that of your text area), decide if there are texts inside.
Just construct training set (positive samples are text areas, negative samples are other areas randomly cropped from the big images) and train it~
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I have a stock of photos, of a spinning disk of varying angles. I wish to find the edge of the top of the disk. The top is colored in a distinct black color in comparison to the rest of the photo.
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I first tried using canny edge detection which does a decent job, but also identifies the bottom half of the disk, which I wish to avoid.
Next idea was to use the distinct black color- perhaps by dividing the photo into domains characterized by colors\intensities- and by choosing the largest domain\most black domain or some other parameter, perhaps to isolate that black circle, and only then to use canny edge detector.
Is there any existing function that can divide a greyscale image into domains? Transferring from matlab to python, so I'm new to it's syntax and functions.
Thanks
The Canny disaster goes on !
People playing with image processing keep willing to rely on edge detection when they have beautifully segmenting scenes. With a careful selection of a binarization threshold, you can extract the ellipse as a single piece.
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I have an analog speedometer image, with the needle pointing to the current speed. I am trying to find a way to get the speed that the needle is pointing out to. I tried using HoughCircles() from OpenCV, but it is throwing an error as the image contains only speedometer and which is a semi-circle. Any resources to help me move forward will be appreciated.
Assuming the needle will have a different colour to the rest of the speedometer OR its size is distinctly larger than the rest of the elements on the speedometer (which is often the case), I'll do something like below.
Convert the image to grayscale.
Apply colour thresholding (or size-based thresholding) to detect the pixel area representing the needle.
Use HoughLines() or HoughLinesP() functions in OpenCV to fit a line to the shape you detected in Step 2.
Now it's a matter of measuring the angle of the line you generated in Step 3 (example provided here: How can I determine the angle a line found by HoughLines function using OpenCV?)
You can then map the angle of the line to the speed through a simple equation (Will need to see an image of the speedometer to generate this).
let me know how it went.
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I have a couple of standard ways of detecting a modified image such as
Luminance gradient
Copy move detection
Metadata Extraction
Histogram analysis
ELA(Error level analysis)
Quantization matrix analysis
Thumbnail analysis
are there any other standard ways of detecting a modified image?
Tried out
Finding the EXIF of the image to check the created and modified date and check for modification. I also had some rules for EXIF camera make and make note validation along with checking for the software used such as photoshop, Shotwell, etc.
Was able to segment the image and use SLIC(simple linear iterative clustering) to find out the similar cluster regions in an image
Find the largest contour with less pixel inconsistency with luminance gradient to mark that as a potential modified region
Largest contour with ELA as a potential modified region
Check for inconsistencies in histogram graph and mark it as a potential editted image.
Here are my questions
Are there any standard logics to verify the image with metadata such as using the created and modified dates, the camera make or maker note, etc. As these details are not consistent for any given image.
Finding out the least pixel inconsistency contour in the Luminance gradient would always give me an image that is modified?
If the histogram graph has a regular interval fluctuation could it be considered a modified image?
How could I use Quantization matrices to find out image anomalies
what is the best way to compare the thumbnail image to the original image to check for inconsistencies?
The answer to this question needs more detailed so, I will give some references to the subject itself and I will share with you the code of every part of your question :
You need to use exif to verify the image with metadata
For Anomaly Detection in Images see here
To compare the thumbnail image to the original image read this. where it showed you how to compare two images using Python.
References :
ccse.kfupm.edu.sa
github.com/redaelli
github.com/Ghirensics
www.amazon.com/Learning
books.google.com.tw
hal.inria.fr/
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Is there any way to remove the lower pixel valued connected components from the below picture? Like I want the horizontal and vertical lines and small already printed texts removed except the handwritten text.
I want the handwritten text to be extracted like in this image.
Is there any specific library I can use for this purpose?
I was trying Python OpenCV's library to threshold the noise pixels out of the image but that is not giving perfect result.
The image I'm getting after using threshold is this.
If I increase the threshold then it is removing pixels from the handwritten text itself.
Combine the OpenCV methods erode and dilate. They are able to first (erode) get rid of noise and then amplify the main signale (dilate).
You can develop an algorithm based "connected component analysis" to remove undesired connected components. You just need to detect connected components and remove the small ones to extract the desired ones. A case study about it can be found in here and can be helpful for you to develop the solution for your case.
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I have some images i'm using for face recognition.
Some of the images are very dark.
I don't want to use Histogram equalisation on all the images only on the dark ones.
How can i determine if an image is dark?
I'm using opencv in python.
I would like to understand the theory and the implementation.
Thanks
To determin if an image is dark, simply calculate the average intensity and judge it.
The problem for the recognition although is not that the image is dark, but that it has a low contrast. A bright image with the same contrast would yield the same bad results.
Histogram equalization is a method that is used to improve images for human vision. Humans have difficulties to distinguish between very similar intensity values. A problem that a computer does not have, unless your algorithm is somehow made to mimic human vision with all its flaws.
A low contrast image bears little information. There is no image enhancement algorithm in the world that will add any further information.
I won't get into too much detail about image characterization. You'll find plenty of resources online or in text books.
A simple measure would be to calculate the standard deviation of image regions you are interested in.
You can try using CLAHE instead of the using histogram equalization. I am not sure if it will work for all your images (if you post some images I can try), however, conceptually, it should work better than "global" histogram equalization.