Re: Using GIFT for symbol recognition

Philip Farrugia wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> Kindly note that I've just subscribed with the GIFT mailing list. I'm 
> involved in a Ph.D. research project aimed at automatically generating 
> 3D virtual models directly from /paper/-absed sketches. I'm planning 
> to use GIFT as means to recognise /different symbols/ that I'm using 
> in the sketches.
>
> Can you please tell me whether it is possible to recognise hand-drawn 
> symbols using GIFT? If yes, how to create my own database of symbols 
> in GIFT?
Hi Philip,

The GIFT does not have specific support for symbols, or indeed line
drawings of any kind. The default set of features used by the gift
(areas of colour and texture) are more likely better suited to
photographs of natural scenes.

That being said, IIRC, there has been an application of the GIFT to
trademark recognition (Henning might be able to give a pointer for
that). There has certainly been considerable research on the use of CBIR
for trademark retrieval.

I suspect that you should consider creating a feature set that is
specific to your image domain. It is possible that this could then be
used with the GIFT architecture for retrieval.

Still, I guess first you should try it and see. To create a "database of
symbols", all you need is a directory full of images.

Regards,

David


-- 
Dr David McG. Squire,  Senior Lecturer, on sabbatical in 2006
Caulfield School of Information Technology, Monash University, Australia
CRICOS Provider No. 00008C       http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~davids/