PT Chapter
AU A.Kesidis
   Dimosthenis Karatzas
TI Logo and Trademark Recognition
BT Handbook of Document Image Processing and Recognition
PY 2014
BP 591
EP 646
VL D
DI 10.1007/978-0-85729-859-1_16
DE Logo recognition; Logo removal; Logo spotting; Trademark registration; Trademark retrieval systems
AB The importance of logos and trademarks in nowadays society is indisputable, variably seen under a positive light as a valuable service for consumers or a negative one as a catalyst of ever-increasing consumerism. This chapter discusses the technical approaches for enabling machines to work with logos, looking into the latest methodologies for logo detection, localization, representation, recognition, retrieval, and spotting in a variety of media. This analysis is presented in the context of three different applications covering the complete depth and breadth of state of the art techniques. These are trademark retrieval systems, logo recognition in document images, and logo detection and removal in images and videos. This chapter, due to the very nature of logos and trademarks, brings together various facets of document image analysis spanning graphical and textual content, while it links document image analysis to other computer vision domains, especially when it comes to the analysis of real-scene videos and images.
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