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Author Gemma Sanchez; Josep Llados; Enric Marti
Title A string-based method to recognize symbols and structural textures in architectural plans Type Conference Article
Year 1997 Publication 2nd IAPR Workshop on Graphics Recognition Abbreviated Journal
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Abstract This paper deals with the recognition of symbols and struc- tural textures in architectural plans using string matching techniques. A plan is represented by an attributed graph whose nodes represent characteristic points and whose edges represent segments. Symbols and textures can be seen as a set of regions, i.e. closed loops in the graph, with a particular arrangement. The search for a symbol involves a graph matching between the regions of a model graph and the regions of the graph representing the document. Discriminating a texture means a clus- tering of neighbouring regions of this graph. Both procedures involve a similarity measure between graph regions. A string codification is used to represent the sequence of outlining edges of a region. Thus, the simila- rity between two regions is defined in terms of the string edit distance between their boundary strings. The use of string matching allows the recognition method to work also under presence of distortion.
Address Nancy, France
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Call Number IAM @ iam @ SLE1997 Serial 1498
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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 Book Chapter
Year 1998 Publication Graphics Recognition Algorithms and Systems Second International Workshop, GREC' 97 Nancy, France, August 22–23, 1997 Selected Papers Abbreviated Journal LNCS
Volume 1389 Issue 1998 Pages 91-103
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Abstract This paper deals with the recognition of symbols and structural textures in architectural plans using string matching techniques. A plan is represented by an attributed graph whose nodes represent characteristic points and whose edges represent segments. Symbols and textures can be seen as a set of regions, i.e. closed loops in the graph, with a particular arrangement. The search for a symbol involves a graph matching between the regions of a model graph and the regions of the graph representing the document. Discriminating a texture means a clustering of neighbouring regions of this graph. Both procedures involve a similarity measure between graph regions. A string codification is used to represent the sequence of outlining edges of a region. Thus, the similarity between two regions is defined in terms of the string edit distance between their boundary strings. The use of string matching allows the recognition method to work also under presence of distortion.
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Publisher Springer Link Place of Publication Editor
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Call Number IAM @ iam @ SLE1998 Serial 1573
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Author Ernest Valveny; Enric Marti
Title A model for image generation and symbol recognition through the deformation of lineal shapes Type Journal Article
Year 2003 Publication Pattern Recognition Letters Abbreviated Journal PRL
Volume 24 Issue 15 Pages 2857-2867
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Abstract We describe a general framework for the recognition of distorted images of lineal shapes, which relies on three items: a model to represent lineal shapes and their deformations, a model for the generation of distorted binary images and the combination of both models in a common probabilistic framework, where the generation of deformations is related to an internal energy, and the generation of binary images to an external energy. Then, recognition consists in the minimization of a global energy function, performed by using the EM algorithm. This general framework has been applied to the recognition of hand-drawn lineal symbols in graphic documents.
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Publisher Elsevier Science Inc. Place of Publication New York, NY, USA Editor
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ISSN 0167-8655 ISBN Medium
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Notes (down) DAG; IAM Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ VAM2003 Serial 1653
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Author Alicia Fornes; Sergio Escalera; Josep Llados; Gemma Sanchez; Joan Mas
Title Hand Drawn Symbol Recognition by Blurred Shape Model Descriptor and a Multiclass Classifier Type Book Chapter
Year 2008 Publication Graphics Recognition: Recent Advances and New Opportunities Abbreviated Journal
Volume 5046 Issue Pages 30–40
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Publisher Place of Publication Editor W. Liu, J. Llados, J.M. Ogier
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Notes (down) DAG; HUPBA; MILAB Approved no
Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ FEL2008 Serial 989
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Author Alicia Fornes; Sergio Escalera; Josep Llados; Ernest Valveny
Title Symbol Classification using Dynamic Aligned Shape Descriptor Type Conference Article
Year 2010 Publication 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 1957–1960
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Abstract Shape representation is a difficult task because of several symbol distortions, such as occlusions, elastic deformations, gaps or noise. In this paper, we propose a new descriptor and distance computation for coping with the problem of symbol recognition in the domain of Graphical Document Image Analysis. The proposed D-Shape descriptor encodes the arrangement information of object parts in a circular structure, allowing different levels of distortion. The classification is performed using a cyclic Dynamic Time Warping based method, allowing distortions and rotation. The methodology has been validated on different data sets, showing very high recognition rates.
Address Istanbul (Turkey)
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ISSN 1051-4651 ISBN 978-1-4244-7542-1 Medium
Area Expedition Conference ICPR
Notes (down) DAG; HUPBA; MILAB Approved no
Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ FEL2010 Serial 1421
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Author Ernest Valveny; Robert Benavente; Agata Lapedriza; Miquel Ferrer; Jaume Garcia; Gemma Sanchez
Title Adaptation of a computer programming course to the EXHE requirements: evaluation five years later Type Miscellaneous
Year 2012 Publication European Journal of Engineering Education Abbreviated Journal
Volume 37 Issue 3 Pages 243-254
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Notes (down) DAG; CIC; OR; invisible;MV Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ VBL2012 Serial 2070
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Author Christophe Rigaud; Dimosthenis Karatzas; Joost Van de Weijer; Jean-Christophe Burie; Jean-Marc Ogier
Title Automatic text localisation in scanned comic books Type Conference Article
Year 2013 Publication Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 814-819
Keywords Text localization; comics; text/graphic separation; complex background; unstructured document
Abstract Comic books constitute an important cultural heritage asset in many countries. Digitization combined with subsequent document understanding enable direct content-based search as opposed to metadata only search (e.g. album title or author name). Few studies have been done in this direction. In this work we detail a novel approach for the automatic text localization in scanned comics book pages, an essential step towards a fully automatic comics book understanding. We focus on speech text as it is semantically important and represents the majority of the text present in comics. The approach is compared with existing methods of text localization found in the literature and results are presented.
Address Barcelona; February 2013
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Notes (down) DAG; CIC; 600.056 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ RKW2013b Serial 2261
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Author Christophe Rigaud; Dimosthenis Karatzas; Joost Van de Weijer; Jean-Christophe Burie; Jean-Marc Ogier
Title An active contour model for speech balloon detection in comics Type Conference Article
Year 2013 Publication 12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 1240-1244
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Abstract Comic books constitute an important cultural heritage asset in many countries. Digitization combined with subsequent comic book understanding would enable a variety of new applications, including content-based retrieval and content retargeting. Document understanding in this domain is challenging as comics are semi-structured documents, combining semantically important graphical and textual parts. Few studies have been done in this direction. In this work we detail a novel approach for closed and non-closed speech balloon localization in scanned comic book pages, an essential step towards a fully automatic comic book understanding. The approach is compared with existing methods for closed balloon localization found in the literature and results are presented.
Address washington; USA; August 2013
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ISSN 1520-5363 ISBN Medium
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Notes (down) DAG; CIC; 600.056 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ RKW2013a Serial 2260
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Author Alicia Fornes; Josep Llados; Gemma Sanchez; Xavier Otazu; Horst Bunke
Title A Combination of Features for Symbol-Independent Writer Identification in Old Music Scores Type Journal Article
Year 2010 Publication International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal IJDAR
Volume 13 Issue 4 Pages 243-259
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Abstract The aim of writer identification is determining the writer of a piece of handwriting from a set of writers. In this paper, we present an architecture for writer identification in old handwritten music scores. Even though an important amount of music compositions contain handwritten text, the aim of our work is to use only music notation to determine the author. The main contribution is therefore the use of features extracted from graphical alphabets. Our proposal consists in combining the identification results of two different approaches, based on line and textural features. The steps of the ensemble architecture are the following. First of all, the music sheet is preprocessed for removing the staff lines. Then, music lines and texture images are generated for computing line features and textural features. Finally, the classification results are combined for identifying the writer. The proposed method has been tested on a database of old music scores from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, achieving a recognition rate of about 92% with 20 writers.
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Publisher Springer-Verlag Place of Publication Editor
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ISSN 1433-2833 ISBN Medium
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Notes (down) DAG; CAT;CIC Approved no
Call Number FLS2010b Serial 1319
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Author Youssef El Rhabi; Simon Loic; Brun Luc; Josep Llados; Felipe Lumbreras
Title Information Theoretic Rotationwise Robust Binary Descriptor Learning Type Conference Article
Year 2016 Publication Joint IAPR International Workshops on Statistical Techniques in Pattern Recognition (SPR) and Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition (SSPR) Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 368-378
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Abstract In this paper, we propose a new data-driven approach for binary descriptor selection. In order to draw a clear analysis of common designs, we present a general information-theoretic selection paradigm. It encompasses several standard binary descriptor construction schemes, including a recent state-of-the-art one named BOLD. We pursue the same endeavor to increase the stability of the produced descriptors with respect to rotations. To achieve this goal, we have designed a novel offline selection criterion which is better adapted to the online matching procedure. The effectiveness of our approach is demonstrated on two standard datasets, where our descriptor is compared to BOLD and to several classical descriptors. In particular, it emerges that our approach can reproduce equivalent if not better performance as BOLD while relying on twice shorter descriptors. Such an improvement can be influential for real-time applications.
Address Mérida; Mexico; November 2016
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Notes (down) DAG; ADAS; 600.097; 600.086 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ RLL2016 Serial 2871
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Author Katerine Diaz; Jesus Martinez del Rincon; Aura Hernandez-Sabate; Marçal Rusiñol; Francesc J. Ferri
Title Fast Kernel Generalized Discriminative Common Vectors for Feature Extraction Type Journal Article
Year 2018 Publication Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision Abbreviated Journal JMIV
Volume 60 Issue 4 Pages 512-524
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Abstract This paper presents a supervised subspace learning method called Kernel Generalized Discriminative Common Vectors (KGDCV), as a novel extension of the known Discriminative Common Vectors method with Kernels. Our method combines the advantages of kernel methods to model complex data and solve nonlinear
problems with moderate computational complexity, with the better generalization properties of generalized approaches for large dimensional data. These attractive combination makes KGDCV specially suited for feature extraction and classification in computer vision, image processing and pattern recognition applications. Two different approaches to this generalization are proposed, a first one based on the kernel trick (KT) and a second one based on the nonlinear projection trick (NPT) for even higher efficiency. Both methodologies
have been validated on four different image datasets containing faces, objects and handwritten digits, and compared against well known non-linear state-of-art methods. Results show better discriminant properties than other generalized approaches both linear or kernel. In addition, the KGDCV-NPT approach presents a considerable computational gain, without compromising the accuracy of the model.
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Notes (down) DAG; ADAS; 600.086; 600.130; 600.121; 600.118; 600.129 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ DMH2018a Serial 3062
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Author Marçal Rusiñol; J. Chazalon; Katerine Diaz
Title Augmented Songbook: an Augmented Reality Educational Application for Raising Music Awareness Type Journal Article
Year 2018 Publication Multimedia Tools and Applications Abbreviated Journal MTAP
Volume 77 Issue 11 Pages 13773-13798
Keywords Augmented reality; Document image matching; Educational applications
Abstract This paper presents the development of an Augmented Reality mobile application which aims at sensibilizing young children to abstract concepts of music. Such concepts are, for instance, the musical notation or the idea of rhythm. Recent studies in Augmented Reality for education suggest that such technologies have multiple benefits for students, including younger ones. As mobile document image acquisition and processing gains maturity on mobile platforms, we explore how it is possible to build a markerless and real-time application to augment the physical documents with didactic animations and interactive virtual content. Given a standard image processing pipeline, we compare the performance of different local descriptors at two key stages of the process. Results suggest alternatives to the SIFT local descriptors, regarding result quality and computational efficiency, both for document model identification and perspective transform estimation. All experiments are performed on an original and public dataset we introduce here.
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Notes (down) DAG; ADAS; 600.084; 600.121; 600.118; 600.129 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ RCD2018 Serial 2996
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Author Katerine Diaz; Jesus Martinez del Rincon; Marçal Rusiñol; Aura Hernandez-Sabate
Title Feature Extraction by Using Dual-Generalized Discriminative Common Vectors Type Journal Article
Year 2019 Publication Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision Abbreviated Journal JMIV
Volume 61 Issue 3 Pages 331-351
Keywords Online feature extraction; Generalized discriminative common vectors; Dual learning; Incremental learning; Decremental learning
Abstract In this paper, a dual online subspace-based learning method called dual-generalized discriminative common vectors (Dual-GDCV) is presented. The method extends incremental GDCV by exploiting simultaneously both the concepts of incremental and decremental learning for supervised feature extraction and classification. Our methodology is able to update the feature representation space without recalculating the full projection or accessing the previously processed training data. It allows both adding information and removing unnecessary data from a knowledge base in an efficient way, while retaining the previously acquired knowledge. The proposed method has been theoretically proved and empirically validated in six standard face recognition and classification datasets, under two scenarios: (1) removing and adding samples of existent classes, and (2) removing and adding new classes to a classification problem. Results show a considerable computational gain without compromising the accuracy of the model in comparison with both batch methodologies and other state-of-art adaptive methods.
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Notes (down) DAG; ADAS; 600.084; 600.118; 600.121; 600.129 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ DRR2019 Serial 3172
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Author Marçal Rusiñol; David Aldavert; Ricardo Toledo; Josep Llados
Title Efficient segmentation-free keyword spotting in historical document collections Type Journal Article
Year 2015 Publication Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal PR
Volume 48 Issue 2 Pages 545–555
Keywords Historical documents; Keyword spotting; Segmentation-free; Dense SIFT features; Latent semantic analysis; Product quantization
Abstract In this paper we present an efficient segmentation-free word spotting method, applied in the context of historical document collections, that follows the query-by-example paradigm. We use a patch-based framework where local patches are described by a bag-of-visual-words model powered by SIFT descriptors. By projecting the patch descriptors to a topic space with the latent semantic analysis technique and compressing the descriptors with the product quantization method, we are able to efficiently index the document information both in terms of memory and time. The proposed method is evaluated using four different collections of historical documents achieving good performances on both handwritten and typewritten scenarios. The yielded performances outperform the recent state-of-the-art keyword spotting approaches.
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Notes (down) DAG; ADAS; 600.076; 600.077; 600.061; 601.223; 602.006; 600.055 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ RAT2015a Serial 2544
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Author Lluis Pere de las Heras; Ahmed Sheraz; Marcus Liwicki; Ernest Valveny; Gemma Sanchez
Title Statistical Segmentation and Structural Recognition for Floor Plan Interpretation Type Journal Article
Year 2014 Publication International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal IJDAR
Volume 17 Issue 3 Pages 221-237
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Abstract A generic method for floor plan analysis and interpretation is presented in this article. The method, which is mainly inspired by the way engineers draw and interpret floor plans, applies two recognition steps in a bottom-up manner. First, basic building blocks, i.e., walls, doors, and windows are detected using a statistical patch-based segmentation approach. Second, a graph is generated, and structural pattern recognition techniques are applied to further locate the main entities, i.e., rooms of the building. The proposed approach is able to analyze any type of floor plan regardless of the notation used. We have evaluated our method on different publicly available datasets of real architectural floor plans with different notations. The overall detection and recognition accuracy is about 95 %, which is significantly better than any other state-of-the-art method. Our approach is generic enough such that it could be easily adopted to the recognition and interpretation of any other printed machine-generated structured documents.
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Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor
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ISSN 1433-2833 ISBN Medium
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Notes (down) DAG; ADAS; 600.076; 600.077 Approved no
Call Number HSL2014 Serial 2370
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