Bib number recognition.

Student: Patrakeeva Maria

Faculty: St. Petersburg School of Physics, Mathematics, and Computer Science

Educational Programme: Big Data Analysis for Business, Economy, and Society (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2019

People post on the Internet a huge number of photos from the races and other sporting events. It is a difficult task to find photos with a particular participant in the competition. But each participant has a unique bib number on the clothes. Marking photos with numbers solves the problem of searching. Companies that selling photos from the races do a manual layout of photos and are interested in automation. This paper is devoted to the development of a participant number recognition methodology based on deep learning.

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