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Using computer vision may provide a good enough result for this use case. An interesting approach would be to segment the book piles and bulk scan the spines. T

by fauria 7y ago

Using computer vision may provide a good enough result for this use case. An interesting approach would be to segment the book piles and bulk scan the spines. There are projects that already tackled this problem: https://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~ben-shahar/Teaching/Computational-Vision/StudentProjects/ICBV151/ICBV-2015-1-PavelRubinson/index.php https://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~ben-shahar/Teaching/Computational-... Won't be as accurate as barcode scanning, but will be definitely less time consuming.

davewasthere 7y ago
That's fantastic. I was after a similar solution and after playing with OpenCV, I can see how they put the pieces together. Annoyingly, I was trying to scan multiple books in charity shops, when one of my favourites started putting their own stickers directly over the barcode (when it existed).