Graphical symbol recognition

Santosh K.C. (1) , Laurent Wendling (2)

1 NLM - National Library of Medicine
2 LIPADE - EA 2517 - Laboratoire d'Informatique Paris Descartes

The chapter focuses on one of the key issues in document image processing i.e., graphical symbol recognition. Graphical symbol recognition is a sub-field of a larger research domain: pattern recognition. The chapter covers several approaches (i.e., statistical, structural and syntactic) and specially designed symbol recognition techniques inspired by real-world industrial problems. It, in general, contains research problems, state-of-the-art methods that convey basic steps as well as prominent concepts or techniques and research standpoints/directions that are associated with graphical symbol recognition.

Mots clés: Graphics processing; graphical symbol; recognition; retrieval and spotting; statistical approaches; structural and syntactic approaches; real-world problems

Domaines: Traitement du texte et du document; Vision par ordinateur et reconnaissance de formes [cs.CV]; Traitement des images [eess.IV]

Santosh K.C., Laurent Wendling. Graphical symbol recognition. Wiley, pp.1 - 22, 2015, Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, ⟨10.1002/047134608X.W8260⟩. ⟨hal-01166512⟩