Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
7-26-2009
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICDAR.2009.43
Abstract
Portable ballot counters using camera technology and manual paper feed are potentially more reliable and less expensive than scanner based systems. We show that the spatial sampling rate, geometric linearity, point spread function, and photometric transfer function of off-the-shelf consumer cameras are acceptable for ballot imaging. However, scanner illumination is much more uniform than can be economically accomplished for variable size ballots. Therefore flat-field compensation must be designed into the image processing software. We illustrate the mechanical design of a prototype camera based ballot reader based on our comparative observations.
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Publication Information
Nagy, George; Clifford, Bryan; Berg, Andrew; Saunders, Glenn; Lopresti, Dan; and Barney Smith, Elisa. (2009). "Camera-Based Ballot Counter". 10th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, 2009. ICDAR '09., 151-155.