Enhancing the Automatic Recognition Accuracy of Imprinted Ship Characters by Using Machine Learning
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Published:2023-09-24
Issue:19
Volume:15
Page:14130
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ISSN:2071-1050
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Container-title:Sustainability
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language:en
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Short-container-title:Sustainability
Author:
Abdulraheem Abdulkabir1, Suleiman Jamiu T.1ORCID, Jung Im Y.1ORCID
Affiliation:
1. School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, Republic of Korea
Abstract
In this paper, we address the challenge of ensuring safe operations and rescue efforts in emergency situations, for the sake of a sustainable marine environment. Our focus is on character recognition, specifically on deciphering characters present on the surface of aged and corroded ships, where the markings may have faded or become unclear over time, in contrast to vessels with clearly visible letters. Imprinted ship characters encompassing engraved, embroidered, and other variants found on ship components serve as vital markers for ship identification, maintenance, and safety in marine technology. The accurate recognition of these characters is essential for ensuring efficient operations and effective decision making. This study presents a machine-learning-based method that markedly improves the recognition accuracy of imprinted ship numbers and characters. This improvement is achieved by enhancing data classification accuracy through data augmentation. The effectiveness of the proposed method was validated by comparing it to State-of-the-Art classification technologies within the imprinted ship character dataset. We started with the originally sourced dataset and then systematically increased the dataset size, using the most suitable generative adversarial networks for our dataset. We compared the effectiveness of classic and convolutional neural network (CNN)-based classifiers to our classifier, a CNN-based classifier for imprinted ship characters (CNN-ISC). Notably, on the augmented dataset, our CNN-ISC model achieved impressive maximum recognition accuracy of 99.85% and 99.7% on alphabet and digit recognition, respectively. Overall, data augmentation markedly improved the recognition accuracy of ship digits and alphabets, with the proposed classification model outperforming other methods.
Funder
National Research Foundation BK21 FOUR project
Subject
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law,Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment,Geography, Planning and Development,Building and Construction
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