%0 Book Section
%T An Overview of Symbol Recognition
%A Salvatore Tabbone
%A Oriol Ramos Terrades
%E D. Doermann
%E K. Tombre
%B Handbook of Document Image Processing and Recognition
%D 2014
%V D
%I Springer London
%@ 978-0-85729-858-4
%F Salvatore Tabbone2014
%O DAG; 600.077
%O exported from refbase (http://refbase.cvc.uab.es/show.php?record=2489), last updated on Thu, 15 Sep 2016 16:58:54 +0200
%X According to the Cambridge Dictionaries Online, a symbol is a sign, shape, or object that is used to represent something else. Symbol recognition is a subfield of general pattern recognition problems that focuses on identifying, detecting, and recognizing symbols in technical drawings, maps, or miscellaneous documents such as logos and musical scores. This chapter aims at providing the reader an overview of the different existing ways of describing and recognizing symbols and how the field has evolved to attain a certain degree of maturity.
%K Pattern recognition
%K Shape descriptors
%K Structural descriptors
%K Symbolrecognition
%K Symbol spotting
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-859-1_17
%P 523-551