{"id":3241,"date":"2020-01-22T16:16:58","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T21:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portfolios.cs.earlham.edu\/?p=3241"},"modified":"2020-01-22T16:16:59","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T21:16:59","slug":"cs388-week-1-first-idea-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/portfolios.cs.earlham.edu\/index.php\/2020\/01\/22\/cs388-week-1-first-idea-12\/","title":{"rendered":"CS388 &#8211; Week 1 &#8211; First Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Name of Your Project<\/strong><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Detect and Translate Chinese text in images<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>What research topic\/question your project\nis going to address?<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lately many translator applications have\nintroduced the new feature that can scan a document or take an image with texts\nto detect and translate the texts into another language. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many of these applications perform well with\nvery neat and clear handwriting or high quality images but not quite well with\ncursive handwriting or low quality images. My research goal is to improve the\ndetection performance in these cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>What technology will be used in your\nproject?<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chinese \u2013 English Dictionary API<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>What software and hardware will be needed\nfor your project?<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Python, PyTorch, matlab<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>How are you planning to implement?<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Build a pipeline that first enhance the\nquality of the image data using image processing techniques, then feeds data to\na deep neural network model (maybe CNN) to detect the Chinese characters and\nconnect to a dictionary API to translate the text into English.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>How is your project different from others?\nWhat\u2019s new in your project?<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The current applications do not perform very\nwell on low quality images, so my goal is to find solutions to this limit of\nthe translation apps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>What\u2019s the difficulties of your project?\nWhat problems you might encounter during your project?<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I did some experiments and found that big\napps like Google Translate still had trouble detecting the not-very-neat\nhandwriting. Therefore it could be very challenging to achieve my research goal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name of Your Project Detect and Translate Chinese text in images What research topic\/question your project is going to address? Lately many translator applications have introduced the new feature that can scan a document or take an image with texts to detect and translate the texts into another language. Many of these applications perform well &#8230; <a title=\"CS388 &#8211; Week 1 &#8211; First Idea\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/portfolios.cs.earlham.edu\/index.php\/2020\/01\/22\/cs388-week-1-first-idea-12\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about CS388 &#8211; Week 1 &#8211; First Idea\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,119,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-101","category-kate-nguyen","category-student"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/portfolios.cs.earlham.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/portfolios.cs.earlham.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/portfolios.cs.earlham.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portfolios.cs.earlham.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portfolios.cs.earlham.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/portfolios.cs.earlham.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3242,"href":"https:\/\/portfolios.cs.earlham.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3241\/revisions\/3242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/portfolios.cs.earlham.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portfolios.cs.earlham.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portfolios.cs.earlham.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}