PT Unknown AU Klaus Broelemann Anjan Dutta Xiaoyi Jiang Josep Llados TI Hierarchical graph representation for symbol spotting in graphical document images BT Structural, Syntactic, and Statistical Pattern Recognition, Joint IAPR International Workshop PY 2012 BP 529 EP 538 VL 7626 DI 10.1007/978-3-642-34166-3_58 AB Symbol spotting can be defined as locating given query symbol in a large collection of graphical documents. In this paper we present a hierarchical graph representation for symbols. This representation allows graph matching methods to deal with low-level vectorization errors and, thus, to perform a robust symbol spotting. To show the potential of this approach, we conduct an experiment with the SESYD dataset. ER