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A photographer takes on average one photo of every one of 29,500 riders then posts them on a website where the riders can buy them. How do they allocate the rider number to the photos? Is there some kind of number recognition software similar to ANPR or is it still a massive eye-hand-keypad effort?
I asked this awhile back.
The answer then was it was a manual job.
There would be a way if of doing it if the rider rode over a timing mat v close to the photographer.
quick google says there are a number of free packages out there.
I'd be amazed if they were doing it manually.
Roots a day rain ask the punters to tag a handful of pics each after an event. When I last did it most were done in a day.
I'd be amazed if they were doing it manually.
+1
quick google says there are a number of free packages out there.
From what I recall reading up on it most OCR programs struggle with race numbers. They are generally a small part of the entire picture. The numbers are often partially obscured, or angled to the camera. More than one rider in the picture. Writing on kit also creates false positives.
From what I recall reading up on it most OCR programs struggle with race numbers. They are generally a small part of the entire picture. The numbers are often partially obscured, or angled to the camera. More than one rider in the picture. Writing on kit also creates false positives.
Probably true. there are 14 official photos of me, 4 of another mate and none of my brother in law who rode with me all day.