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In electric power supply, railway, and other companies with many facilities, facility management is a laborious task. To realize a computerized facility management system, numerous paper-based facility maps should be stored in a database. In this paper, we present a system that constructs a facility management database by interpretation of paper-based facility maps. This system can automatically recognize structured figures with variable shapes on maps, while conventional methods cannot recognize these figures. And this system can easily generate relational data between facilities and character strings on maps. We compare our recognition method of structured figures with variable shapes with a conventional recognition method, and show the effectiveness of our system.
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Received: 18 November 1996 / Accepted: 16 February 1998
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Maeda, A., Wakimoto, K., Nagahisa, H. et al. An interactive tool for recognizing structured figures with variable shapes. Machine Vision and Applications 11, 24–36 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s001380050087
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s001380050087