Symbol spotting problem requires feature extraction strategies able to generalize from training samples and to localize the target object while discarding most part of the image. ...
Objectives: The aim of this study is to provide to indexers MeSH terms to be considered as major ones in a list of terms automatically extracted from a document. Material and metho...
Shape representation is a difficult task because of several symbol distortions, such as occlusions, elastic deformations, gaps or noise. In this paper, we propose a new descriptor ...
We study methods to initialize or bias different clustering methods using prior information about the "importance" of a keyword w.r.t. the whole document collection or a...
This paper addresses the indexing and retrieval of mathematical symbols from digitized documents. The proposed approach exploits Shape Contexts (SC) to describe the shape of mathe...