@inproceedings{b68d0da3b7464c1ea44834361390027c,
title = "Smart Library: Identifying Books on Library Shelves Using Supervised Deep Learning for Scene Text Reading",
abstract = "Physical library collections are valuable and long standing resources for knowledge and learning. However, managing and finding books or other volumes on a large collection of bookshelves often leads to tedious manual work, especially for large collections where books or others might be missing or misplaced. Recently, deep neural-based models have been successful in detecting and recognizing text in images taken from natural scenes. Based on this, we investigate deep learning for facilitating book management. This task introduces further challenges including image distortion and varied lighting conditions. We present a library inventory building and retrieval system based on scene text reading. We specifically design our text recognition model using rich supervision to accelerate training and achieve state-of-the- art performance on several benchmark datasets. Our proposed system has the potential to greatly reduce the amount of manual labor required for managing book inventories.",
author = "Xiao Yang and Dafang He and Wenyi Huang and Alexander Ororbia and Zihan Zhou and Daniel Kifer and Giles, {C. Lee}",
note = "Funding Information: We gratefully acknowledge partial support from NSF grant CCF 1317560 and a hardware grant from NVIDIA.; 17th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL 2017 ; Conference date: 19-06-2017 Through 23-06-2017",
year = "2017",
month = jul,
day = "25",
doi = "10.1109/JCDL.2017.7991581",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
booktitle = "2017 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL 2017",
address = "United States",
}