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Author Joan Mas; Gemma Sanchez; Josep Llados
Title An Incremental Parser to Recognize Diagram Symbols and Gestures represented by Adjacency Grammars Type Book Whole
Year 2006 Publication Graphics Recognition: Ten Years Review and Future Perspectives, W. Liu, J. Llados (Eds.), LNCS 3926: 252–263 Abbreviated Journal
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Call Number (down) DAG @ dag @ MSL2006a Serial 711
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Author Joan Mas; Gemma Sanchez; Josep Llados
Title An Incremental Parser to Recognize Diagram Symbols and Gestures represented by Adjacency Grammars Type Miscellaneous
Year 2005 Publication Sixth IAPR International Workshop on Graphics Recognition (GREC 2005), 229–237 Abbreviated Journal
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Address Hong Kong (China)
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Call Number (down) DAG @ dag @ MSL2005b Serial 611
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Author Joan Mas; Gemma Sanchez; Josep Llados
Title An Adjacency Grammar to Recognize Symbols and Gestures in a Digital Pen Framework Type Book Chapter
Year 2005 Publication Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (IbPRIA 2005), LNCS 3523: 115–122 Abbreviated Journal
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Address Estoril (Portugal)
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Call Number (down) DAG @ dag @ MSL2005a Serial 558
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Author Joan Mas; Jose Antonio Rodriguez; Dimosthenis Karatzas; Gemma Sanchez; Josep Llados
Title HistoSketch: A Semi-Automatic Annotation Tool for Archival Documents Type Conference Article
Year 2008 Publication Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 517–524
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Address Nara (Japan)
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Call Number (down) DAG @ dag @ MRK2008a Serial 1061
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Author Sebastien Mace; Herve Locteau; Ernest Valveny; Salvatore Tabbone
Title A system to detect rooms in architectural floor plan images Type Conference Article
Year 2010 Publication 9th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 167–174
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Abstract In this article, a system to detect rooms in architectural floor plan images is described. We first present a primitive extraction algorithm for line detection. It is based on an original coupling of classical Hough transform with image vectorization in order to perform robust and efficient line detection. We show how the lines that satisfy some graphical arrangements are combined into walls. We also present the way we detect some door hypothesis thanks to the extraction of arcs. Walls and door hypothesis are then used by our room segmentation strategy; it consists in recursively decomposing the image until getting nearly convex regions. The notion of convexity is difficult to quantify, and the selection of separation lines between regions can also be rough. We take advantage of knowledge associated to architectural floor plans in order to obtain mostly rectangular rooms. Qualitative and quantitative evaluations performed on a corpus of real documents show promising results.
Address Boston; USA
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Call Number (down) DAG @ dag @ MLV2010 Serial 1437
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Author Joan Mas; Josep Llados; Gemma Sanchez; J.A. Jorge
Title A syntactic approach based on distortion-tolerant Adjacency Grammars and a spatial-directed parser to interpret sketched diagrams Type Journal Article
Year 2010 Publication Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal PR
Volume 43 Issue 12 Pages 4148–4164
Keywords Syntactic Pattern Recognition; Symbol recognition; Diagram understanding; Sketched diagrams; Adjacency Grammars; Incremental parsing; Spatial directed parsing
Abstract This paper presents a syntactic approach based on Adjacency Grammars (AG) for sketch diagram modeling and understanding. Diagrams are a combination of graphical symbols arranged according to a set of spatial rules defined by a visual language. AG describe visual shapes by productions defined in terms of terminal and non-terminal symbols (graphical primitives and subshapes), and a set functions describing the spatial arrangements between symbols. Our approach to sketch diagram understanding provides three main contributions. First, since AG are linear grammars, there is a need to define shapes and relations inherently bidimensional using a sequential formalism. Second, our parsing approach uses an indexing structure based on a spatial tessellation. This serves to reduce the search space when finding candidates to produce a valid reduction. This allows order-free parsing of 2D visual sentences while keeping combinatorial explosion in check. Third, working with sketches requires a distortion model to cope with the natural variations of hand drawn strokes. To this end we extended the basic grammar with a distortion measure modeled on the allowable variation on spatial constraints associated with grammar productions. Finally, the paper reports on an experimental framework an interactive system for sketch analysis. User tests performed on two real scenarios show that our approach is usable in interactive settings.
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Call Number (down) DAG @ dag @ MLS2010 Serial 1336
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Author Joan Mas; B. Lamiroy; Gemma Sanchez; Josep Llados
Title Automatic Learning of Symbol Descriptions Avoiding Topological Ambiguities Type Miscellaneous
Year 2006 Publication 3rd Eurographics Workshop on Sketch Based Interfaces and Modeling (SBIM´06), 27–34 Abbreviated Journal
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Address Vienna (Austria)
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Call Number (down) DAG @ dag @ MLS2006b Serial 710
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Author Joan Mas; B. Lamiroy; Gemma Sanchez; Josep Llados
Title Automatic Adjacency Grammar Generation from User Drawn Sketches Type Miscellaneous
Year 2006 Publication 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR´06), 2: 1026–1029 Abbreviated Journal
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Address Hong Kong
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Call Number (down) DAG @ dag @ MLS2006a Serial 709
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Author Joan Mas; J.A. Jorge; Gemma Sanchez; Josep Llados
Title Representing and Parsing Sketched Symbols using Adjacency Grammars and a Grid-Directed Parser Type Book Chapter
Year 2008 Publication Graphics Recognition: Recent Advances and New Opportunities, Abbreviated Journal
Volume 5046 Issue Pages 176–187
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Publisher Place of Publication Editor W. Liu, J. Llados, J.M. Ogier
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Call Number (down) DAG @ dag @ MJS2008 Serial 991
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Author Joan Mas; J.A. Jorge; Gemma Sanchez; Josep Llados
Title Describing and Parising Hand-Drawn Sketches using a Syntactic Approach Type Conference Article
Year 2007 Publication Seventh IAPR International Workshop on Graphics Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 61–62
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Address Curitiba (Brasil)
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Publisher Place of Publication Editor J. Llados, W. Liu, J.M. Ogier
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Call Number (down) DAG @ dag @ MJS2007 Serial 845
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Author Joan Mas
Title A Syntactic Pattern Recognition Approach based on a Distribution Tolerant Adjacency Grammar and a Spatial Indexed Parser. Application to Sketched Document Recognition Type Book Whole
Year 2010 Publication PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC Abbreviated Journal
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Abstract Sketch recognition is a discipline which has gained an increasing interest in the last
20 years. This is due to the appearance of new devices such as PDA, Tablet PC’s
or digital pen & paper protocols. From the wide range of sketched documents we
focus on those that represent structured documents such as: architectural floor-plans,
engineering drawing, UML diagrams, etc. To recognize and understand these kinds
of documents, first we have to recognize the different compounding symbols and then
we have to identify the relations between these elements. From the way that a sketch
is captured, there are two categories: on-line and off-line. On-line input modes refer
to draw directly on a PDA or a Tablet PC’s while off-line input modes refer to scan
a previously drawn sketch.
This thesis is an overlapping of three different areas on Computer Science: Pattern
Recognition, Document Analysis and Human-Computer Interaction. The aim of this
thesis is to interpret sketched documents independently on whether they are captured
on-line or off-line. For this reason, the proposed approach should contain the following
features. First, as we are working with sketches the elements present in our input
contain distortions. Second, as we would work in on-line or off-line input modes, the
order in the input of the primitives is indifferent. Finally, the proposed method should
be applied in real scenarios, its response time must be slow.
To interpret a sketched document we propose a syntactic approach. A syntactic
approach is composed of two correlated components: a grammar and a parser. The
grammar allows describing the different elements on the document as well as their
relations. The parser, given a document checks whether it belongs to the language
generated by the grammar or not. Thus, the grammar should be able to cope with
the distortions appearing on the instances of the elements. Moreover, it would be
necessary to define a symbol independently of the order of their primitives. Concerning to the parser when analyzing 2D sentences, it does not assume an order in the
primitives. Then, at each new primitive in the input, the parser searches among the
previous analyzed symbols candidates to produce a valid reduction.
Taking into account these features, we have proposed a grammar based on Adjacency Grammars. This kind of grammars defines their productions as a multiset
of symbols rather than a list. This allows describing a symbol without an order in
their components. To cope with distortion we have proposed a distortion model.
This distortion model is an attributed estimated over the constraints of the grammar and passed through the productions. This measure gives an idea on how far is the
symbol from its ideal model. In addition to the distortion on the constraints other
distortions appear when working with sketches. These distortions are: overtracing,
overlapping, gaps or spurious strokes. Some grammatical productions have been defined to cope with these errors. Concerning the recognition, we have proposed an
incremental parser with an indexation mechanism. Incremental parsers analyze the
input symbol by symbol given a response to the user when a primitive is analyzed.
This makes incremental parser suitable to work in on-line as well as off-line input
modes. The parser has been adapted with an indexation mechanism based on a spatial division. This indexation mechanism allows setting the primitives in the space
and reducing the search to a neighbourhood.
A third contribution is a grammatical inference algorithm. This method given a
set of symbols captures the production describing it. In the field of formal languages,
different approaches has been proposed but in the graphical domain not so much work
is done in this field. The proposed method is able to capture the production from
a set of symbol although they are drawn in different order. A matching step based
on the Haussdorff distance and the Hungarian method has been proposed to match
the primitives of the different symbols. In addition the proposed approach is able to
capture the variability in the parameters of the constraints.
From the experimental results, we may conclude that we have proposed a robust
approach to describe and recognize sketches. Moreover, the addition of new symbols
to the alphabet is not restricted to an expert. Finally, the proposed approach has
been used in two real scenarios obtaining a good performance.
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Publisher Ediciones Graficas Rey Place of Publication Editor Gemma Sanchez;Josep Llados
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Call Number (down) DAG @ dag @ Mas2010 Serial 1334
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Author Joan Mas
Title Syntactic approaches to recognize bi-dimensional shapes in graphics recognition. Application to sketching interfaces Type Report
Year 2005 Publication CVC Technical Report #86 Abbreviated Journal
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Call Number (down) DAG @ dag @ Mas2005a Serial 573
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Author Josep Llados; Gemma Sanchez; K. Tombre
Title An Error-Correction Graph Grammar to Recognize Texture Symbols. Type Miscellaneous
Year 2002 Publication Graphics Recognition: Algorithms and Apllications, LNCS 2390: 128–138, Springer Verlag. Abbreviated Journal
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Address Berlin
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Call Number (down) DAG @ dag @ LST2002 Serial 281
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Author Josep Llados; Gemma Sanchez; Enric Marti
Title A String-Based Method to Recognize Symbols and Structural Textures in Architectural Plans. Type Miscellaneous
Year 1997 Publication Second IAPR Workshop on Graphics Recognition, pp. 287–294. Abbreviated Journal
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Call Number (down) DAG @ dag @ LSM1997 Serial 44
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Author Josep Llados; Partha Pratim Roy; Jose Antonio Rodriguez; Gemma Sanchez
Title Word Spotting in Archive Documents using Shape Contexts Type Book Chapter
Year 2007 Publication 3rd Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (IbPRIA 2007), J. Marti et al. (Eds.) LNCS 4478:290–297 Abbreviated Journal
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Address Girona (Spain)
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Call Number (down) DAG @ dag @ LRR2007 Serial 779
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