Major Project Report

After completion of the project work, every student will submit a project report which should
contain the following:

1. Cover Page
2. Title page
3. Declaration by the Student
4. Certificate by the Guide
5. Acknowledgment (The candidate may thank all those who helped in the execution of the
project.)
6. Abstract (It should be in one page and include the purpose of the study; the methodology
used and a summary of the major findings.)
7. Table of Contents: Detailed description of the project (This should be split in various
chapters/sections with each chapter/section describing a project activity in totality). This
portion of report should contain all relevant diagrams, tables, flow charts, software program,
print outs, photographs etc., which are properly labeled.
8. Conclusion & Future Work
9. Appendices
 Appendices are provided to give supplementary information, which if included in the
main text may serve as a distraction and cloud the central theme.
 Appendices should be numbered using Arabic numerals, e.g. Appendix 1, Appendix 2.
 Appendices shall carry the title of the work reported and the same title shall be listed in
the Contents page also
10. References (The listing of references should be typed 2 spaces below the heading
“REFERENCES” in alphabetical order in single spacing left – justified. It should be
numbered consecutively (in square [ ] brackets, throughout the text and should be collected
together in the reference list at the end of the report. The references should be numbered in
the order they are used in the text. The name of the author/authors should be immediately
followed by the year and other details). Typical examples of the references are given below:

REFERENCES

[1] Ariponnammal, S. and Natarajan, S. (1994) „Transport Phonomena of SmSel – X Asx‟,

Pramana – Journal of Physics Vol.42, No.1, pp.421-425.

In addition, following points should be complied with:-

i) Page numbering
ii) Numbering of appendices, figures and tables and their reference in the text.
iii) For general layout of report, any standard text book layout may be referred.
Report Specifications:

1. Project Report’s Cover Type: Hard-bind

2. Color of Project Report Cover: Black only with golden alphabets
3. Number of Copies: 2 (1 for External exam + 1 for Internal exam)
4. Paper Size (orientation): A4 (portrait)
5. Margins: 1” (top / bottom / right) and 1.5” (left)
6. Font Type: Times New Roman
7. Font Size: 16 bold for chapter names, 14 bold for headings and 12 for normal text
8. Line Spacing: 1.5 throughout
9. Page Numbering: Bottom center of page in the format – Page 1 of N

NOTE: Project report must not contain any description of the following except only a relevant
and short mention – technology or platform or OS or tools used or any language details. It must
be more focused on project work carried out and its implementation details without including
any source code.

Details of CD:

CD of the project work is required to be pasted on the back cover of the project report in clear
packet, which should include the following folders and contents:

1. Presentation (should include a PPT about project in not more than 40-50 slides)
2. Documentation (should include a word file of the project report)
3. Source Code (full source code of the project with libraries used)
4. Program (final running copy of the project executable)
5. Support (any third party tools used or runtime environment setups that are required to
run the project)
6. Help (user manual on how to run the project)

NOTE: Source Code and program folders can be combined into single folder Project if it’s a
web based project.
 TITLE OF PROJECT
A Major Project Report Submitted in Partial Fulfillment for the Award of the
Degree of Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and
Engineering/Information Technology

Submitted to

Dr. A.P.J. ABDUL KALAM TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY, LUCKNOW

Submitted by:
NAME OF THE STUDENT (University Roll Number)

UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF

Mr. /Ms. /Dr. XYZ
Assistant Professor

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

UNITED COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND RESEARCH,
PRAYAGRAJ
MAY 2024
 CANDIDATE’S DECLARATION

We, hereby certify that the project entitled “ ---” submitted by us in partial fulfillment
of the requirement for the award of degree of the B. Tech. (Computer Science &
Engineering) submitted to Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University, Lucknow at
United College of Engineering and Research, Prayagraj is an authentic record of our own
work carried out during a period from June, 2023 to May, 2024 under the guidance of
Mr./Dr./Mrs./Prof.---(Guide name, Designation, Department of Computer Science
& Engineering). The matter presented in this project has not formed the basis for the
award of any other degree, diploma, fellowship or any other similar titles.

Signature of the Student

(XYZ and University Roll No.)

Signature of the Student

(XYZ and University Roll No.)

Signature of the Student

(XYZ and University Roll No.)

Signature of the Student

(XYZ and University Roll No.)

Place:

Date:
 CERTIFICATE

This is to certify that the project titled “---” is the bona fide work carried out by
(Student name) & (University Roll no) in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the
award of degree of the B. Tech. (Computer Science & Engineering) submitted to Dr.
A.P.J Abdul Kalam Technical University, Lucknow at United College of Engineering and
Research, Prayagraj is an authentic record of their own work carried out during a period
from June, 2023 to May, 2024 under the guidance of Mr./Dr./Mrs./Prof.---(Guide
name, Designation, Department of Computer Science & Engineering). The Major
Project Viva-Voce Examination has been held on __________________.

Signature of the Guide _________________________________

[Mr. XYZ]

Signature of Project Coordinator ________________________

[Mr. Shyam Bahadur Verma]

Signature of the Head of Department _____________________

[Dr. Vijay Kumar Dwivedi]

Place:

Date:
 ABSTRACT

The automatic scene text detection and recognition from video as well as natural scene
images is a challenging problem due to the illumination, shadows, occlusion, background
variations, and arbitrary orientations of texts. In addition, blurring adds more complexity to the
problem. Many application areas, including advanced driver assistance systems, road surveying,

and autonomous vehicles are dependent on detection and recognition of text. Text detection and
recognition on traffic panels has been thoroughly studied for a long time. However, still it remains
a challenge in computer vision due to its different types and the huge variability of the information
present in them.

In this thesis a hybrid text detection and recognition system for traffic panels has been proposed
which is invariant in variable lighting and viewing angle and has a low computational time with
low false positive rates. This problem can be divided in two stages; First stage will be detection
of text candidates using edge-enhanced maximally stable extremal regions (MSERs) and
reduction of non-text candidates using region properties. The second part of the system carries
out the recognition of the text contained within the detected candidate regions. It uses optical
character recognition (OCR) to recognize words. The detection stage achieves a precision value
of 0.8965, a recall value of 0.7454, and an Fmeasure value of 0.8139. The method gives high SSIM
and accuracy rate as compared to existing methods for text extraction stage. It gives a very good
character confidence of 92.62%, highest character accuracy rate of 96.95%, and is with the least
error rate of 3.05%. The method is evaluated using the standard ICDAR 2013 dataset consisting
mostly real time images.

Index Terms- Maximally stable extremal region (MSER), panel detection, OCR,
CIELAB.
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We express our sincere gratitude to the Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam Technical University,
Lucknow for giving us the opportunity to work on the Major Project during our final year
of B.Tech. (CSE) is an important aspect in the field of engineering.

We would like to thank Prof. H.P. Shukla, Principal and Dr. Vijay Kumar Dwivedi,
Head of Department, CSE at United College of Engineering and Research, Prayagraj for
their kind support.

We also owe our sincerest gratitude towards Mr./Dr./Mrs./Prof.____ (Guide name)

for his/her valuable advice and healthy criticism throughout our project which helped us
immensely to complete our work successfully.

We would also like to thank everyone who has knowingly and unknowingly helped us
throughout our work. Last but not the least, a word of thanks for the authors of all those
books and papers which we have consulted during our project work as well as for
preparing the report.
 Table of Contents

Title Page i
Declaration of the Student (Signed by Student) ii
Certificate of the Guide (Signed by Guide, HoD, Project Coordinator) iii
Abstract (Evaluated & Signed by Guide) iv
Acknowledgement v
List of Figures vi
List of Tables (optional) vii
Timeline / Gantt Chart viii
1. INTRODUCTION 1
1.1 Problem Definition 1
1.2 Project Overview/Specifications 2
1.3 Hardware Specification 3
1.4 Software Specification 4
1.4.1
1.4.2 4
…
2. LITERATURE SURVEY 5
2.1 Existing System 5
2.2 Proposed System 6
2.3 Feasibility Study 7

3. SYSTEM ANALYSIS & DESIGN

3.1 Requirement Specification 9
3.2 Flowcharts / DFDs / ERDs 10
3.3 Design and Test Steps / Criteria 12
3.3 Algorithms 16
3.3.1 18
3.3.2 19
3.4 Testing Process (Test Cases to be included) 22
27
…

4. RESULTS / OUTPUTS 40
5. CONCLUSIONS / RECOMMENDATIONS 47
6. REFERENCES 49
7. APPENDICES 50