%0 Conference Proceedings %T Error-tolerant coarse-to-fine matching model for hierarchical graphs %A Pau Riba %A Josep Llados %A Alicia Fornes %E Pasquale Foggia %E Cheng-Lin Liu %E Mario Vento %B 11th IAPR-TC-15 International Workshop on Graph-Based Representations in Pattern Recognition %D 2017 %V 10310 %I Springer International Publishing %F Pau Riba2017 %O DAG; 600.097; 601.302; 600.121 %O exported from refbase (http://refbase.cvc.uab.es/show.php?record=2951), last updated on Mon, 07 Dec 2020 14:29:44 +0100 %X Graph-based representations are effective tools to capture structural information from visual elements. However, retrieving a query graph from a large database of graphs implies a high computational complexity. Moreover, these representations are very sensitive to noise or small changes. In this work, a novel hierarchical graph representation is designed. Using graph clustering techniques adapted from graph-based social media analysis, we propose to generate a hierarchy able to deal with different levels of abstraction while keeping information about the topology. For the proposed representations, a coarse-to-fine matching method is defined. These approaches are validated using real scenarios such as classification of colour images and handwritten word spotting. %K Graph matching %K Hierarchical graph %K Graph-based representation %K Coarse-to-fine matching %U http://refbase.cvc.uab.es/files/RLF2017.pdf %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58961-9 %P 107-117