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Understanding of graphic objects has become a problem of pertinence in today’s context of digital documentation and document digitization, since graphic information in a document image may be present in several forms, such as engineering drawings, architectural plans, musical scores, tables, charts, extended objects, hand-drawn sketches, etc. There exist quite a few approaches for segmentation of graphics from text, and also a separate set of techniques for recognizing a graphics and its characteristic features. This paper introduces a novel geometric algorithm that performs the task of segmenting out all the graphic objects in a document image and subsequently also works as a high-level tool to classify various graphic types. Given a document image, it performs the text-graphics segmentation by analyzing the geometric features of the minimum-area isothetic polygonal covers of all the objects for varying grid spacing, g. As the shape and size of a polygonal cover depends on g, and each isothetic polygon is represented by an ordered sequence of its vertices, the spatial relationship of the polygons corresponding to a higher grid spacing with those corresponding to a lower spacing, is used for graphics segmentation and subsequent classification. Experimental results demonstrate its efficiency, elegance, and versatility.
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Pal, S., Bhowmick, P., Biswas, A., Bhattacharya, B.B. (2010). GOAL: Towards Understanding of Graphic Objects from Architectural to Line Drawings. In: Ogier, JM., Liu, W., Lladós, J. (eds) Graphics Recognition. Achievements, Challenges, and Evolution. GREC 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6020. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13728-0_8
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