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

• Main Authors: Rusiñol, Marçal (Author), Lladós, Josep (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2010.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Database management.; Image processing.; Pattern recognition.; Computer Science.; Database Management.; Pattern Recognition.; Image Processing and Computer Vision.

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...