Perceptual Organization as a Foundation for Graphics Recognition

This paper motivates an approach to graphics recognition grounded in a framework for human and machine vision known as Perceptual Organization. We review some of the characteristics of this approach that distinguish it from traditional engineering of document recognition systems, and we suggest why and how the techniques and philosophy of Perceptual Organization might lead to advances in the very practical matters of interpreting diagrams, drawings, and sketches.

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