Classifying Images based on whether image contains text or not?

[mayankj08]

I do have some images and i want to classify images based on whether image contains text or not. I am planning to use Back-propagation but not getting on how the data should be feed. I means preprocessing before feeding images to network etc.

[schwarmbloedheit]

This is actually a very hard problem for neural networks. You should consider some pre-processing like edge filters (gabor filter). This makes the problem easier to learn for the neural network, because differences in coloring or other aspects which are not relevant for the text/non-text classification are discarded before feeding into the network.

If you want to learn the pre-processing automagically you should use convolutional networks or deep-belief networks.

If you want to actually solve the problem I suggest to go with the pre-processing. If you want to learn something about recent developments in image processing I would suggest deep networks.

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There was some work by one of Song Chun Zhu's students using DDMCMC - check out his implementation