Symbol Spotting in Digital Libraries Focused Retrieval over Graphic-rich Document Collections

From the reviews:

“This monograph is a clearly written and accessible survey and framework for the field, and it should prove useful to researchers and students in computer vision, pattern recognition, and related fields. It would also be instructive for advanced practitioners in these areas … . References are provided at the end of each chapter for researchers who need or want to refer to the primary literature. In short, this book is a concise, readable, and informative resource on its specialized problem domain and related areas.” (R. M. Malyankar, ACM Computing Reviews, October, 2010)