Vision-based fast location of multi-bar code in any direction
Abstract
The automatic location of the bar code is a key step in the bar code image recognition system. It is extremely confined that the generalization of the traditional bar code localization algorithms due to the requirements of both direction and quality of bar code, and most of them are only aimed at the single barcode localization. In this paper, we have proposed a novel multi-barcode location algorithm in arbitrary direction based on the accumulation of the linear gray value. First, the line coordinates of the barcode region is determined by the image normalized cross-correlation algorithm. Then the center line of gray value of cumulative distribution is used to analyze the barcode boundary and to determine the number of bar code within the region. Finally, the precise positioning of the barcode region is obtained. The experiments have demonstrated that our proposed method can be used to identify all the bar codes in any area, and automatically locate the bar codes in any direction.
