The invention discloses an ancient
topographic map place name identification method and
system, and relates to the field of
computer vision. And a two-stage strategy of character area detection and
character recognition is designed, so that the end-to-end accuracy of place name recognition is effectively improved. According to the method, through
processing of first image
cutting and then detection in a first stage, adverse effects caused by too large scale difference between images and characters are reduced, accurate positioning of character areas is realized, and reasoning time is shortened; a space attention cross-dimension reconstruction module is utilized in a first-stage
algorithm, and space, channel and
frequency domain features are combined, so that the
feature extraction capability of the model is improved, the space redundancy is reduced, and the adaptability of the model to variable fonts, variable directions, variant characters and the like in an ancient map is enhanced; in the second stage, in the preprocessing process, background features are weakened by adopting grey-
scale map conversion, filtering and
GrabCut algorithms, so that character features are highlighted; the original
branch and the newly-added
branch based on the
image recovery module are used for cooperatively recognizing the characters, and the accuracy of low-quality character image recognition is improved.