Awesome Image-based Meter Recognition & Reading

A curated list of resources dedicated to image-based meter recognition & reading. Any suggestions and pull requests are welcome.

Task description

In consideration of safety and cost, smart meters are still not widely installed. Conventional meters are still heavily used in energy consumption (water, electricity and gas etc.) and industrial monitoring. Automating the reading of these meters can significantly reduce labour and time costs.

As showed in Fig. 1, there are two main categories of conventional meters: analog (with pointers and dial display) and digital (with digital wheel display).

Given an image of meters, image-based meter recognition & reading aims to output the readings of this image. If the image is not cropped, it usually consists of two steps: detection (Det) and recognition (Recog).

Papers

Year	Venue	Title	Repo	Task
2017	ICIMCS	Automatic Watermeter Digit Recognition on Mobile Devices		Digital Det. & Recog.
2019	Access	Fully Convolutional Sequence Recognition Network for Water Meter Number Reading		Digital Recog.
2019	PRCV	Reading Digital Numbers of Water Meter with Deep Learning Based Object Detector	code	Digital Det. & Recog.
2020	Measurement	A pointer meter recognition method based on virtual sample generation technology		Analog Recog.
2020	ISSPM	Automatic reading algorithm of pointer water meter based on deep learning and double centroid method		Analog Det. & Recog.
2021	INTETAIN	A Fast Region Segmentation Algorithm for Water Meter Image Based on Adaptive Seed Point Selection		Digital Recog.
2021	IAEAC	Research on the Visual Recognition Method of Pointer Water Meter Reading		Analog Det. & Recog.
2021	FMI	Water meter pointer reading recognition method based on target-key point detection		Analog Det. & Recog.
2021	CVPRW	Real-time analogue gauge transcription on mobile phone		Analog Det. & Recog.
2021	TAI	Vector Detection Network: An Application Study on Robots Reading Analog Meters in the Wild	Code	Analog Det. & Recog.
2021	Sensor	Image-Based Automatic Watermeter Reading under Challenging Environments		Digital & Analog Det. & Recog.
2022	Access	Generative Data Augmentation for Automatic Meter Reading Using CNNs		Digital Recog.
2022	ICDSCA	Research and Application of Pointer Meter Reading Algorithm Based on Attention U2-Net		Analog Recog.
2022	MST	Correction and pointer reading recognition of circular pointer meter		Analog Recog.
2022	TIM	Real Time Power Equipment Meter Recognition Based on Deep Learning		Analog Det. & Recog.
2022	CVPR	It's About Time: Analog Clock Reading in the Wild	Code	Analog Det. & Recog.
2022	IoTJ	HRC-mCNNs: A Hybrid Regression and Classification Multi-branch CNNs for Automatic Meter Reading with Smart Shell		Digital Det. & Recog.
2022	Scentific Reports	Research on water meter reading recognition based on deep learning		Digital Det. & Recog.
2023	Sensors	Water Meter Reading for Smart Grid Monitoring		Digital Det. & Recog.
2024	TIM	Towards Accurate Readings of Water Meters by Eliminating Transition Error: New Dataset and Effective Solution	Code	Analog Recog.

Public available datasets

Year	Venue	Dataset	Num.	Paper	Task
2019	-	WaterMeters	1.2K	Water Meter Dataset	Digital Det. & Recog.
2019	Access	SCUT-WMN	5k	Fully Convolutional Sequence Recognition Network for Water Meter Number Reading	Digital Recog.
2020	CCF BDCI	BDCI2020	1.5K	真实场景下的水表读数自动识别	Digital Det. & Recog.
2020	-	SUEZ MeterReading	1K	AI for Meter Reading by Suez	Digital Recog.
2020	IJCNN	UFPR-ADMR-v1	2k	Deep Learning for Image-based Automatic Dial Meter Reading: Dataset and Baselines	Analog Det. & Recog.
2021	CVPRW	SyntheticGauges+RealGauges	11K	Real-time analogue gauge transcription on mobile phone	Analog Det. & Recog.
2021	TAI	Pointer-10K	10k	Vector Detection Network: An Application Study on Robots Reading Analog Meters in the Wild	Analog Det. & Recog.
2021	Arxiv	NRC-GAMMA	2.8k	NRC-GAMMA: Introducing a Novel Large Gas Meter Image Dataset	Analog Recog.
2022	Arxiv	UFPR-ADMR-v2	5k	Image-based Automatic Dial Meter Reading in Unconstrained Scenarios	Analog Det. & Recog.
2022	TIM	PMIs	1.8k	Real Time Power Equipment Meter Recognition Based on Deep Learning	Analog Det. & Recog.
2022	CVPR	COCO+OpenImage	1.9k+1.3k	It's About Time: Analog Clock Reading in the Wild	Analog Det. & Recog.
2024	TIM	WMeter5K	5K	Towards Accurate Readings of Water Meters by Eliminating Transition Error: New Dataset and Effective Solution	Digital Det. & Recog., Analog Det. & Recog., Whole Reading Recog.