Symbol Spotting in Digital Libraries Focused Retrieval over Graphic-rich Document Collections /

• Main Authors: Rusiǫl, Marȧl. (Author), Llads̤, Josep. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2010.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Optical pattern recognition.; Computer Science.; Pattern Recognition.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84996-208-7

The specific problem of symbol recognition in graphical documents requires additional techniques to those developed for character recognition. The most well-known obstacle is the so-called Sayre paradox: Correct recognition requires good segmentation, yet improvement in segmentation is achieved usin...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• State of the Art in Symbol Spotting
• Part I: On the Use of Photometric Descriptors for Symbol Spotting
• Symbol Spotting for Document Categorization.-Part II: On the Use of Geometric and Structural Constraints for Symbol Spotting.-Vectorial Signatures for Symbol Recognition and Spotting
• Symbol Spotting Through Prototype-based Search
• A Relational Indexing Method for Symbol Spotting.-Part III: A Performance Evaluation Protocol for Symbol Spotting Systems.-Performance Evaluation of Symbol Spotting Systems
• Conclusions.