Eighth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR'05)
Camera-based Kanji OCR for Mobile-phones: Practical Issues
Seoul, Korea
August 31-September 01
ISBN: 0-7695-2420-6
Masashi Koga, Hitachi Central Research Laboratory, Tokyo, Japan
Ryuji Mine, Hitachi Central Research Laboratory, Tokyo, Japan
Masahiro Yamazaki, Hitachi Ubiquitous System Platform R&D Laboratory, Yokohama, Japan
A camera-based optical character reader (OCR) for Japanese Kanji characters was implemented on a mobile-phone. This OCR has three key features. The first is discriminative feature extraction (DFE) which enables a character classifier needing only small memory size. The second is a word-segmentation method specially designed for looking up Japanese words in a dictionary. The third feature is a GUI suitable for a mobile-phone. A prototype mobile-phone Kanji OCR was constructed and experimentally tested. Recognition accuracy of over 95% was obtained under the best conditions, which shows the potential of our prototype as a new type of electronic dictionary.
Citation:
Masashi Koga, Ryuji Mine, Tatsuya Kameyama, Toshikazu Takahashi, Masahiro Yamazaki, Teruyuki Yamaguchi, "Camera-based Kanji OCR for Mobile-phones: Practical Issues," icdar, pp.635-639, Eighth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR'05), 2005