TY - JOUR
T1 - Learning of structural descriptions of graphic symbols using deformable template matching
AU - Valveny, Ernest
AU - Marti, Enric
PY - 2001/1/1
Y1 - 2001/1/1
N2 - Accurate symbol recognition in graphic documents needs an accurate representation of the symbols to be recognized. If structural approaches are used for recognition, symbols have to be described in terms of their shape, using structural relationships among extracted features. Unlike statistical pattern recognition, in structutal methods, symbols are usually manually defined from expertise knowledge, and not automatically inferedfrom sample images. In this work we explain one approach to learn from examples a representative structural description of a symbol, thus providing better information about shape variability. The description of a symbol is based on a probabilistic model. It consists of a set of lines described by the mean and the variance of line parameters, respectively providing information about the model of the symbol, and its shape variability. The representation of each image in the sample set as a set of lines is achieved using deformable template matching. © 2001 IEEE.
AB - Accurate symbol recognition in graphic documents needs an accurate representation of the symbols to be recognized. If structural approaches are used for recognition, symbols have to be described in terms of their shape, using structural relationships among extracted features. Unlike statistical pattern recognition, in structutal methods, symbols are usually manually defined from expertise knowledge, and not automatically inferedfrom sample images. In this work we explain one approach to learn from examples a representative structural description of a symbol, thus providing better information about shape variability. The description of a symbol is based on a probabilistic model. It consists of a set of lines described by the mean and the variance of line parameters, respectively providing information about the model of the symbol, and its shape variability. The representation of each image in the sample set as a set of lines is achieved using deformable template matching. © 2001 IEEE.
U2 - 10.1109/ICDAR.2001.953831
DO - 10.1109/ICDAR.2001.953831
M3 - Article
SN - 1520-5363
VL - 2001-January
SP - 455
EP - 459
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR
JF - Proceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR
M1 - 953831
ER -