PT Unknown
AU Lluis Pere de las Heras
   David Fernandez
   Alicia Fornes
   Ernest Valveny
   Gemma Sanchez
   Josep Llados
TI Perceptual retrieval of architectural floor plans
BT 10th IAPR International Workshop on Graphics Recognition
PY 2013
AB This paper proposes a runlength histogram signature  as a percetual descriptor of architectural plans in a retrieval scenario. The style of an architectural drawing is characterized by the perception of lines, shapes and texture. Such visual stimuli are the basis for defining semantic concepts as space properties, symmetry, density, etc. We propose runlength histograms extracted in vertical, horizontal and diagonal directions as a characterization of line and space properties in floorplans, so it can be roughly associated to a description of walls and room structure. A retrieval application illustrates the performance of the proposed approach, where given a plan as a query,similar ones are obtained from a database. A ground truth based on human observation has been constructed to validate the hypothesis. Preliminary results show the interest of the proposed approach and opens a challenging research line in graphics recognition.
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