Flash it read it: A Chinese character flashcard recognizer

Chin Poo Lee; Chi Yeong Tan; Kian Ming Lim; Siti Fatimah Abdul Razak

doi:10.1109/SCORED.2015.7449425

Flash it read it: A Chinese character flashcard recognizer

Chin Poo Lee, Chi Yeong Tan, Kian Ming Lim, Siti Fatimah Abdul Razak

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Abstract

This paper proposes a Chinese character flashcard recognizer for kids learning purposes. Firstly, the system will capture an image of the flashcard shown to the webcam. Secondly, a preprocessing procedure based on thresholding is performed to remove noisy edges and convert the color image into binary image. Subsequently, a Principal Component Analysis based feature extraction is conducted to encode the image into a compact representation. Lastly, character recognition is performed using Euclidean distance. The kids are able to learn Chinese characters with their Pinyin and meaning using the system. From the experiments, promising recognition results are achieved.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2015 IEEE Student Conference on Research and Development, SCOReD 2015
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	681-683
Number of pages	3
ISBN (Electronic)	9781467395724
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/SCORED.2015.7449425
Publication status	Published - 2015
Externally published	Yes
Event	IEEE Student Conference on Research and Development, SCOReD 2015 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Duration: 13 Dec 2015 → 14 Dec 2015

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Name	2015 IEEE Student Conference on Research and Development, SCOReD 2015

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Conference	IEEE Student Conference on Research and Development, SCOReD 2015
Country/Territory	Malaysia
City	Kuala Lumpur
Period	13/12/15 → 14/12/15

Keywords

character recognition
Chinese character
kids learning
PCA
principal component analysis

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Lee, C. P., Tan, C. Y., Lim, K. M., & Razak, S. F. A. (2015). Flash it read it: A Chinese character flashcard recognizer. In 2015 IEEE Student Conference on Research and Development, SCOReD 2015 (pp. 681-683). Article 7449425 (2015 IEEE Student Conference on Research and Development, SCOReD 2015). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/SCORED.2015.7449425

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Lee, CP, Tan, CY, Lim, KM & Razak, SFA 2015, Flash it read it: A Chinese character flashcard recognizer. in 2015 IEEE Student Conference on Research and Development, SCOReD 2015., 7449425, 2015 IEEE Student Conference on Research and Development, SCOReD 2015, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 681-683, IEEE Student Conference on Research and Development, SCOReD 2015, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 13/12/15. https://doi.org/10.1109/SCORED.2015.7449425

Flash it read it: A Chinese character flashcard recognizer. / Lee, Chin Poo; Tan, Chi Yeong; Lim, Kian Ming et al.
2015 IEEE Student Conference on Research and Development, SCOReD 2015. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015. p. 681-683 7449425 (2015 IEEE Student Conference on Research and Development, SCOReD 2015).

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