Hierarchical graph representation for symbol spotting in graphical document images

Abstract

Symbol spotting can be defined as locating given query symbol in a large collection of graphical documents. In this paper we present a hierarchical graph representation for symbols. This representation allows graph matching methods to deal with low-level vectorization errors and, thus, to perform a robust symbol spotting. To show the potential of this approach, we conduct an experiment with the SESYD dataset. © 2012 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.