Journal
JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC IMAGING
Volume 28, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
SPIE-SOC PHOTO-OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION ENGINEERS
DOI: 10.1117/1.JEI.28.1.013023
Keywords
automatic meter reading; convolutional neural networks; deep learning; public dataset
Funding
- National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) [428333/2016-8, 311053/2016-5, 313423/2017-2]
- Minas Gerais Research Foundation (FAPEMIG) [APQ-00567-14, PPM-00540-17]
- Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
- NVIDIA Corporation
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We tackle automatic meter reading (AMR) by leveraging the high capability of convolutional neural networks (CNNs). We design a two-stage approach that employs the Fast-YOLO object detector for counter detection and evaluates three different CNN-based approaches for counter recognition. In the AMR literature, most datasets are not available to the research community since the images belong to a service company. In this sense, we introduce a public dataset, called Federal University of Parana-AMR dataset, with 2000 fully and manually annotated images. This dataset is, to the best of our knowledge, three times larger than the largest public dataset found in the literature and contains a well-defined evaluation protocol to assist the development and evaluation of AMR methods. Furthermore, we propose the use of a data augmentation technique to generate a balanced training set with many more examples to train the CNN models for counter recognition. In the proposed dataset, impressive results were obtained and a detailed speed/accuracy trade-off evaluation of each model was performed. In a public dataset, state-of-the-art results were achieved using <200 images for training. (C) 2019 SPIE and IS&T
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