ClassySeg: a machine learning approach to automatic stroke segmentation

  • Authors:
  • J. Herold;T. F. Stahovich

  • Affiliations:
  • University of California, Riverside, CA;University of California, Riverside, CA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the Eighth Eurographics Symposium on Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We present ClassySeg, a technique for segmenting hand-drawn pen strokes into lines and arcs. ClassySeg employs machine learning techniques to infer the segmentation intended by the drawer. The technique begins by identifying a set of candidate segment points, consisting of all curvature maxima. Features are computed for each candidate point based on speed, curvature, and other geometric properties. These features are adapted from numerous prior segmentation approaches, effectively combining their strengths. These features are used to train a statistical classifier to identify which candidate points are true segment points. A beam search is used to approximate the optimal subset of features to use as input to the classifier. ClassySeg is more accurate than previous techniques for user-independent training conditions, and is as good as the current state-of-the-art algorithm for user-optimized conditions. More importantly, ClassySeg represents a movement away from prior heuristic-based approaches towards a more general and extensible approach.