Imense
Imense Ltd is a UK-based company that develops and licenses technology for numerous OCR (Optical Character Recognition) applications including car license plates (ANPR) and ID reading .
Imense[edit]
The founders of Imense are Dr Christopher Town and Dr David Sinclair. In their academic lives they developed the first 'Ontological Query Evaluation Language' (OQUEL) for image retrieval, which mapped a plain text user query onto a query over automatically recognized visual content in a corpus of images. Dr David Sinclair retains an active interest in computational geometry and has open sourced two efficient Delauany triangulation routines using the principle of a 'Sweep Hull'[1].
The technological focus of the business has evolved from general image content recognition to highly accurate specific pattern recognition required for OCR.
News articles about Imense legacy search technology include.[2][3][4]
Research[edit]
Key papers describing the birth and evolution of ontological query languages include: [5][6]
The research focus of Imense Ltd has evolved from automated visual ontologies [7] to Optical Character Recognition (OCR). The Imense OCR Engine was initially developed to perform automatic license plate reading (ALPR/ ANPR ) on primitive mobile devices.
The ALPR technology has evolved into a fast, efficient general OCR engine that performs well on a range of language model free OCR tasks. The
References[edit]
- ↑ Sinclair, David (2016-03-18). "S-hull: a fast radial sweep-hull routine for Delaunay triangulation".
- ↑ news article 1[permanent dead link]
- ↑ news article 2
- ↑ news article 3
- ↑ Dr Town's Publications
- ↑ ORL Publications
- ↑ Ontology based Visual Information Processing (Town, 2004)
- Language-based Querying of Image Collections on the basis of an Extensible Ontology (Town and Sinclair, 2004)
External links[edit]
- imense.com Content based image search portal.
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