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Architectural floor plans exhibit a large variability in notation. Therefore, segmenting and identifying the elements of any kind of plan becomes a challenging task for approaches based on grouping structural primitives obtained by vectorization. Recently, a patch-based segmentation method working at pixel level and relying on the construction of a visual vocabulary has been proposed in [1], showing its adaptability to different notations by automatically learning the visual appearance of the elements in each different notation. This paper presents an evolution of that previous work, after analyzing and testing several alternatives for each of the different steps of the method: Firstly, an automatic plan-size normalization process is done. Secondly we evaluate different features to obtain the description of every patch. Thirdly, we train an SVM classifier to obtain the category of every patch instead of constructing a visual vocabulary. These variations of the method have been tested for wall detection on two datasets of architectural floor plans with different notations. After studying in deep each of the steps in the process pipeline, we are able to find the best system configuration, which highly outperforms the results on wall segmentation obtained by the original paper.
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de las Heras, LP., Mas, J., Sánchez, G., Valveny, E. (2013). Notation-Invariant Patch-Based Wall Detector in Architectural Floor Plans. In: Kwon, YB., Ogier, JM. (eds) Graphics Recognition. New Trends and Challenges. GREC 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7423. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36824-0_8
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