Shape Reconstruction and Image Restoration for Non-Flat Surfaces of Documents with a Stereo Vision System

  • Authors:
  • Atsushi Yamashita;Atsushi Kawarago;Toru Kaneko;Kenjiro T. Miura

  • Affiliations:
  • Shizuoka University;Shizuoka University;Shizuoka University;Shizuoka University

  • Venue:
  • ICPR '04 Proceedings of the Pattern Recognition, 17th International Conference on (ICPR'04) Volume 1 - Volume 01
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a shape reconstruction and image restoration method for paper documents with curved surfaces or fold lines by using a stereo vision system. Characters in images of thick book's pages acquired with an image scanner are difficult to recognize because they are deformed under the influence of curved surface. Therefore, 3-D shape reconstruction of the book's surface is executed from the result of the stereoscopic measurement by putting the book upward, and an image of a flat surface is recovered from the curved or folded surface. The validity of the proposed method is shown through experiments.