TY  - CHAP
AU  - Salvatore Tabbone
AU  - Oriol Ramos Terrades
ED  - D. Doermann
ED  - K. Tombre
PY  - 2014//
TI  - An Overview of Symbol Recognition
BT  - Handbook of Document Image Processing and Recognition
SP  - 523
EP  - 551
VL  - D
PB  - Springer London
KW  - Pattern recognition
KW  - Shape descriptors
KW  - Structural descriptors
KW  - Symbolrecognition
KW  - Symbol spotting
N2  - 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.
SN  - 978-0-85729-858-4
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-859-1_17
N1  - DAG; 600.077
ID  - Salvatore Tabbone2014
ER  -