Distorted Image Parsing / text identification using C# / [login to view URL]

Cancelled Posted Feb 7, 2012 Paid on delivery
Cancelled Paid on delivery

This project involves using C# and [url removed, login to view] to extract text from an image. The method should involve machine learning using a Markov Random field method or other simularly high level approach. There will be two main parts to the project though you can break it up more if you need to. 1) Image Segmentation : Using Max flow / Min cut algorithm or Markov Random Fields or other high level graph theory. Find a way to with reasonable certainty pull out and seperate each of the overlaping letters. 2) Letter identification : Once the letters have been seperated Identify each letter. The program should be able to do the following : Take a set of input images for training to build the required machine vision knowledge. A set of 10,000 images will be provided but the set of 300,000 images of the same type should be easily be able to be used to train the project. Be able to take additional images and provide at least a 50% complete recognition of the characters involved. The program should also have a certainty level how certain it is that it is correct about the text pulled from the images. This should be a natural extension of using [url removed, login to view] and Markov Random fields.

Success rates of 70% and 90% will provide additional bonuses as well.

This project requires A LOT of knowledge about graph theory and mathmatics.

Some references about graph theory can be found below as well as just by searching on the internet :

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This project need to be able to be ran on a single computer with no internet access (I.E. : It also can't make requests to external resources).

Below are 4 Sample Images:

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## Deliverables

The image below is a sample image. %26nbsp%3bA collection of such images%2c with each image labeled with the text that should be extracted from it%2c will be included when the project is accepted.

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Project ID: #2709254

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