Indian topographical map symbols understanding system

Symbol understanding is a pre‐requisite for reading and interpretation of any map. Thus, any topographic map‐based automated system needs to understand generic symbols associated with the set of maps. The objective of this study was to develop an automated system for the understanding of Survey of I...

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Main Authors: Nikam Gitanjali Ganpatrao, Jayanta Kumar Ghosh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2015-04-01
Series:IET Computer Vision
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-cvi.2013.0311
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description Symbol understanding is a pre‐requisite for reading and interpretation of any map. Thus, any topographic map‐based automated system needs to understand generic symbols associated with the set of maps. The objective of this study was to develop an automated system for the understanding of Survey of India topographic map symbols. The system has been developed making use of shape analysis adopting a complex‐valued chain coding method for representation of the (exterior) boundary of the symbol. Fourier discrete transform and autocorrelation function have been used for shape descriptions. Classification and recognition have been implemented through a template matching method based on similarity measures. The system has been trained with 150 samples of 20 Indian topographic symbols and tested for 200 samples of each of the 20 symbols extracted from sample maps. Experimental results showed that the proposed method has an overall recognition rate of 84.68% as well as the improved mean average precision of symbol recognition. However, understanding of interconnected and/or crowded symbols may be taken up as future scope of this work.
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spelling doaj.art-57293c04b4e6495b9f358f4e4fda68032023-09-15T09:37:34ZengWileyIET Computer Vision1751-96321751-96402015-04-019230030810.1049/iet-cvi.2013.0311Indian topographical map symbols understanding systemNikam Gitanjali Ganpatrao0Jayanta Kumar Ghosh1Department of Civil EngineeringIndian Institute of Technology RoorkeeRoorkee247667IndiaDepartment of Civil EngineeringIndian Institute of Technology RoorkeeRoorkee247667IndiaSymbol understanding is a pre‐requisite for reading and interpretation of any map. Thus, any topographic map‐based automated system needs to understand generic symbols associated with the set of maps. The objective of this study was to develop an automated system for the understanding of Survey of India topographic map symbols. The system has been developed making use of shape analysis adopting a complex‐valued chain coding method for representation of the (exterior) boundary of the symbol. Fourier discrete transform and autocorrelation function have been used for shape descriptions. Classification and recognition have been implemented through a template matching method based on similarity measures. The system has been trained with 150 samples of 20 Indian topographic symbols and tested for 200 samples of each of the 20 symbols extracted from sample maps. Experimental results showed that the proposed method has an overall recognition rate of 84.68% as well as the improved mean average precision of symbol recognition. However, understanding of interconnected and/or crowded symbols may be taken up as future scope of this work.https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-cvi.2013.0311Indian topographical map symbols understanding systemtopographic map based automated systemgeneric symbolsshape analysiscomplex valued chain coding methodFourier discrete transform
spellingShingle Nikam Gitanjali Ganpatrao
Jayanta Kumar Ghosh
Indian topographical map symbols understanding system
IET Computer Vision
Indian topographical map symbols understanding system
topographic map based automated system
generic symbols
shape analysis
complex valued chain coding method
Fourier discrete transform
title Indian topographical map symbols understanding system
title_full Indian topographical map symbols understanding system
title_fullStr Indian topographical map symbols understanding system
title_full_unstemmed Indian topographical map symbols understanding system
title_short Indian topographical map symbols understanding system
title_sort indian topographical map symbols understanding system
topic Indian topographical map symbols understanding system
topographic map based automated system
generic symbols
shape analysis
complex valued chain coding method
Fourier discrete transform
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