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Flowchart recognition for non-textual information retrieval in patent search
2013
Information retrieval (Boston)
Relatively little research has been done on the topic of patent image retrieval and in general in most of the approaches the retrieval is performed in terms of a similarity measure between the query image and the images in the corpus. However, systems aimed at overcoming the semantic gap between the visual description of patent images and their conveyed concepts would be very helpful for patent professionals. In this paper we present a flowchart recognition method aimed at achieving a
doi:10.1007/s10791-013-9234-3
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