Automatic Categorization of Figures
in Scientific Documents

Xiaonan Lu, Prasenjit Mitra, James Z. Wang, and C. Lee Giles
The Pennsylvania State University
Abstract:

Figures are very important non-textual information contained in scientific documents. Current digital libraries do not provide users tools to retrieve documents based on the information available within the figures. We propose an architecture for retrieving documents by integrating figures and other information. The initial step in enabling integrated document search is to categorize figures into a set of pre-defined types. We propose several categories of figures based on their functionalities in scholarly articles. We have developed a machine-learning-based approach for automatic categorization of figures. Both global features, such as texture, and part features, such as lines, are utilized in the architecture for discriminating among figure categories. The proposed approach has been evaluated on a testbed document set collected from the CiteSeer scientific literature digital library. Experimental evaluation has demonstrated that our algorithms can produce acceptable results for realworld use. Our tools will be integrated into a scientificdocument digital library.


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Citation: Xiaonan Lu, Prasenjit Mitra, James Z. Wang, and C. Lee Giles, ``Automatic Categorization of Figures in Scientific Documents,'' Proceedings of the Joint ACM/IEEE Conference on Digital Libraries, pp. 129-138, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, June 2006.

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