A system for understanding imaged infographics and its applications

DocEng'07: Proceedings of the 2007 ACM Symposium on Document Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 9-18

  Huang, Weihua ^a   Tan, Chew Lim ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Applications; Association of text and graphics; Document image understanding; Infographics

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; TEXT PROCESSING;

DOCUMENT IMAGE UNDERSTANDING; GRAPHICAL SYMBOL EXTRACTION; INFOGRAPHICS; INFORMATION GRAPHICS; QUESTION ANSWERING (QA);

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 37849007558     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1284420.1284427     Document Type: Conference Paper

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