PT Chapter
AU Salvatore Tabbone
   Oriol Ramos Terrades
TI An Overview of Symbol Recognition
BT Handbook of Document Image Processing and Recognition
PY 2014
BP 523
EP 551
VL D
DI 10.1007/978-0-85729-859-1_17
DE Pattern recognition; Shape descriptors; Structural descriptors; Symbolrecognition; Symbol spotting
AB 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.
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