Architectural symbol recognition using a network of constraints

We propose a method for recognizing architectural symbols. The method is based on the description of the model through a set of constraints on geometrical features, and on propagating the features extracted from a drawing through the network of constraints. One advantage of this approach is the possibility to incrementally build and update the model, when new symbols have to be taken into account.

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