Hello i need to ask some general question on OCR (Optical character recognition) - maybe you can help me?
- I trained a model which can detect numberplates(using yolo) This is working fine and i am happy with the detection rate
I want now to extract the numbers from the numberplates. I could just train number & digits on top of my existing model or i could train a separate model for this. What would you recommend me to do? Here some thoughts i have right now:
Training on top:
- maye performance gain as i detect everything with one forward
- maybe performance loss as i dont restrict character recognition on the numberplate(will be applied to the whole image)
Training separate model:
- seperation of concern - in general - i like to split different responsebilities.
- maybe performance gain because of small image input size (not the whole image but a portion of it - the numberplate)
- maybe performance loss as i need to evaluate another model
Any comments on this are highly welcome. Greetings, Holöger