Symbol spotting in digital libraries: Focused retrieval over graphic-rich document collections

Symbol Spotting in Digital Libraries: Focused Retrieval over Graphic-rich Document Collections

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1-180

  Rusiñol, Marçal ^a   Lladós, Josep ^a  

^a Barcelona Perception Computing Lab   (Spain)

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EID: 84891384825     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-84996-208-7     Document Type: Book

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