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http://dx.doi.org/10.6109/jkiice.2007.11.6.1162

Container Identifier Recognition Using Morphological Features and FCM-Based Fuzzy RBF Network  

Kim, Kwang-Baek (신라대학교 컴퓨터정보공학부)
Kim, Young-Ju (신라대학교 컴퓨터정보공학부)
Woo, Young-Woon (동의대학교 멀티미디어공학과)
Abstract
In this paper, we proposed a container identifier recognition method for containers used in harbors. After converting a real container image to a gray image, edges are detected from the gray image applying Prewitt mask and candidate identifier area is extracted using morphological features of individual identifier for identifying containers. Because noises are included in the extracted candidate identifier area, noises are eliminated and each identifier is separated using 4-directional edge tracking algorithm and Grassfire algorithm. Each identifier in the noise-free candidate identifier area is recognized using FCM-based row RBF network for discriminating containers. We used 300 real container images for experiment to evaluate the performance of the proposed method, and we could verify the proposed method is better than a conventional method.
Keywords
Contain Identifier; Grassfire; Prewitt Mask; FCM-Based Fuzzy RBF Network;
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