SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTION AND HIGH-QUALITY CAPTURE OF DOCUMENTS ON A CLUTTERED TABLETOP WITH AN AUTOMATICALLY CONTROLLED CAMERA

摘要

Described are systems and methods for recognizing paper documents on a tabletop using an overhead camera mounted on pan-tilt servos. The described automated system first finds paper documents on a cluttered desk based on a text probability map, constructed using multiple images acquired at fixed grid positions, and then captures a sequence of high-resolution overlapping frames of the located document(s), which are then fused together and perspective-rectified, using computed homography, to reconstruct a high quality and fronto-parallel document image that is of sufficient quality required for optical character recognition. The extracted textual information may be used, for example, for indexing and search, document repository and/or language translation applications.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method being performed in a computerized system comprising a processing unit, a memory and a camera, the camera being mounted on a turret operatively coupled to the processing unit, the computer-implemented method comprising:
a. scanning a surface with the camera to acquire a first plurality of images of the surface; b. using the acquired first plurality of images of the surface to determine at least one location of a text on the surface; c. capturing a second plurality of images using the camera based on the determined location of the text on the surface; and d. extracting the text using the second captured plurality of images.