New Approach for Symbol Recognition Combining Shape Context of Interest Points with Sparse Representation

TitleNew Approach for Symbol Recognition Combining Shape Context of Interest Points with Sparse Representation
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2013
AuthorsDo, T-H, Tabbone, S, Ramos-Terrades, O
Conference Name12th International conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
PublisherIEEE
Conference LocationWashington DC
Abstract

In this paper, we propose a new approach for symbol description. Our method is built based on the combination of shape context of interest points descriptor and sparse representation. More specifically, we first learn a dictionary describing shape context of interest point descriptors. Then, based on information retrieval techniques, we build a vector model for each symbol based on its sparse representation in a visual vocabulary whose visual words are columns in the learned dictionary. The retrieval task is performed by ranking symbols based on similarity between vector models. The evaluation of our method, using benchmark datasets, demonstrates the validity of our approach and shows that it outperforms related state-of-the-art methods.

 

DOI10.1109/ICDAR.2013.60