Aminu Yahaya

Real-Time Ship Detection and Text Recognition Using YOLO-OCR for Smart Port Applications

Aminu Yahaya, Rui-Cai Jia, Xingli Gan, Chong Shen & De-lin Zhao · Asian Journal of Research in Computer Science · 2025

This study presents a new real-time computer vision architecture designed for maritime environments that combines YOLO for object detection and PaddleOCR for text recognition. The YOLO algorithm was tuned to identify ships and text regions using a dataset of over 600 annotated ph...