Graphics recognition : recent advances : Third International Workshop, GREC '99, Jaipur, India, September 26-27, 1999 : selected papers

Vectorization.- Stable and Robust Vectorization: How to Make the Right Choices.- A Really Useful Vectorization Algorithm.- Processing of the Connected Shapes in Raster-to-Vector Conversion Process.- Maps and Geographic Documents.- Recognition in Maps and Geographic Documents: Features and Approach.- Interpretation of Geographic Vector-Data in Practice.- Compound Regulated Morphological Operations and Their Application to the Analysis of Line-Drawings.- Detection of Black Point Houses on the Large Size Scanned Topographic Map.- Recognition of Connective Relationship among House Blocks from House Maps.- Graphic Document Analysis.- A Tabular Survey of Automated Table Processing.- Model-Based Graphics Recognition.- A Client-Server Architecture for Document Image Recognition.- Multi-Dimensional Interval Algebra with Symmetry for Describing Block Layouts.- Identification of Person Objects in Four-Scenes Comics of Japanese Newspapers.- Graphic Symbol and Shape Recognition.- Symbol and Shape Recognition.- Synthesis of Representative Graphical Symbols by Computing Generalized Median Graph.- Deformable Template Matching within a Bayesian Framework for Hand-Written Graphic Symbol Recognition.- A Symbol Classifier Able to Reject Wrong Shapes for Document Recognition Systems.- A Robust Shape Decomposition Method.- A Structural Representation Adapted to Handwritten Symbol Recognition.- Combination of Invariant Pattern Recognition Primitives on Technical Documents.- Engineering Drawing Database Retrieval Using Statistical Pattern Spotting Techniques.- Graphics-Based Retrieval of Color Image Databases Using Hand-Drawn Query Sketches.- A Simple Approach to Recognise Geometric Shapes Interactively.- Engineering Drawings and Schematics.- Syntactic and Semantic Graphics Recognition: The Role of the Object-Process Methodology.- Efficient Categorization of 3D Edges from 2D Projections.- Automatic Interpretation of Construction Structure Drawings.- Automated Analysis of Scanned Ducting Diagrams.- Performance Evaluation.- Performance Evaluation of Document Image Algorithms.- Edit Cost Index as a Measure of Performance of Graphics Recognition Systems.- Cost Evaluation of Interactively Correcting Recognized Engineering Drawings.- Impact of Sparse Pixel Vectorization Algorithm Parameters on Line Segmentation Performance.