2.0

Added Graphical User Interface

Changes:

• New Label Recogniser MATLAB App
  • Easily select images, recognise dates and save to a file
  • Image visualisation
  • Automatically reflows to fit screen space
  • Configurable detection parameters
• Updated LabelRecogniser Class
  • Improved error handling
  • Spelling corrections
• Improved Documentation

1.5

Refactored code to use Object-Orientated Programming (OOP)

Changes:

• New class:
  • LabelRecogniser - Date detection & recognition
• New tests:
  • LabelRecogniserTests - Unit tests
  • LabelRecogniserVerification - Metrics from the dataset
• Improved documentation
• Reduced file size
• Removed deprecated MATLAB functions
• Minor performance improvements

1.0

This is the finished algorithm that was developed for my dissertation project on the recognition of expiry dates on food packaging which I compared with competing deep learning approaches.