A Framework for Graphics Recognition

The principal contribution of this paper is an object-oriented application framework for graphics recognition applications, which is a problem domain of increasing interest. The technical concept is that the recognition applications of all graphic objects could follow a similar procedure. The goal of the graphics recognition framework is to abstract and model such similar procedure and supply generic code for graphics recognition algorithms to be used as ready made and easily extendible components in the graphics recognition systems being developed in the future. In addition to the generic graphics recognition process model, the framework consists of reusable classes of graphic objects that appear in engineering drawings as well as in other classes of line drawings. Either white-box or black-box technique can be used to extend the framework to the recognition application of a specific graphic class. The new graphic class may inherit from the available graphic classes in the framework or be totally independent as long as its interface conforms to the framework’s. Applications to several graphic classes are also discussed.