Information extraction from telephone company drawings

Author

Arias, Juan F. ; Balasubramanian, Sanjay ; Prasad, Arathi ; Kasturi, Rangachar ; Chhabra, Atul

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

21-23 Jun 1994

Firstpage

729

Lastpage

732

Abstract

A system for the interpretation of telephone company drawings is described. Two different types of drawings are interpreted: manhole and table drawings. Each drawing is interpreted by using a different approach to suit its characteristics. Manhole drawings represent the interconnection of telephone lines in the field. The approach used is the vectorization of the line segments to extract continuous lines. The table drawings contain information related to the cables in the manhole. The approach is to locate lines and their intersections to extract the information for entries. An Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR) system is used to interpret text information by using grammars

Keywords

image recognition; optical character recognition; telecommunications computing; telephone lines; Intelligent Character Recognition; interpretation; manhole drawings; table drawings; telephone company drawings; text information; Optical character recognition; Pattern recognition;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 1994. Proceedings CVPR '94., 1994 IEEE Computer Society Conference on

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

ISSN

1063-6919

Print_ISBN

0-8186-5825-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CVPR.1994.323888

Filename

323888