The US Patent and Trademark Office, together with the NASA Tournament Lab, launched a contest to develop specialized algorithms to help bring the seven million patents presently in the patent archive into the digital age. The contest was hosted by TopCoder.com, the largest competitive online software developer community. The challenge was to detect, segment and recognize figures, captions and part labels from patent drawing images. The solution presented in this work was the winning submission.
Reference:
Cronje, J. 2012. Figure detection and part label extraction from patent drawing images. 23rd Annual Symposium of the Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa (PRASA), Pretoria, South Africa, 29-30 November 2012
Cronje, J. (2012). Figure detection and part label extraction from patent drawing images. PRASA. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/6464
Cronje, J. "Figure detection and part label extraction from patent drawing images." (2012): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/6464
Cronje J, Figure detection and part label extraction from patent drawing images; PRASA; 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/6464 .
