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Capstone Gather Valuable Information on Headstones as an Automated Process Cameron Christiansen William A. Barrett Brigham Young University Overview Capstone Introduction Information available Geneological information Headstone

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Cameron Christiansen William A. Barrett Brigham Young University

Gather Valuable Information on Headstones as an Automated Process

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Overview

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Introduction

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 Information available

 Geneological information  Headstone location

 Need for automated process

 Number of headstones  Challenge of manual data

gathering

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Related Research

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 Noisy OCR  Commercial apps

 Google Goggles  Business Card

Readers

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Methods

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 Photo capture  Segmentation  Image Filtering  OCR

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Photo Capture

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 iPhone 4  Basic needs  libexif to extract geotagging

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Segmentation

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 Watershed tobogganing  Determining areas of interest  Graph cut on TRAPs

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Image Filtering

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 Rotatation  Blurring

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@~ DAN JONES

AUG. 4, 1810
JAN. 3. 1862

OCR

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 Importance of Image Filtering  Common fonts  Tesseract OCR

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Application

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Future Work

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 Automated segmentation  Noise removal

 Shadows and glares  Stone texture, artwork

 Text rectification  OCR engine  Integration into mobile app

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Conclusion

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 Automate information extraction

 Geotagging  Segmentation  Image Filtering  OCR

 Index the information found