A new paradigm based on agents applied to free-hand sketch recognition

  • Authors:
  • D. G. Fernández-Pacheco;F. Albert;N. Aleixos;J. Conesa

  • Affiliations:
  • Graphical Expression Department, Technical University of Cartagena, Cartagena 30202, Spain;Instituto Interuniversitario de Investigación en Bioingeniería y Tecnología Orientada al Ser Humano, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia 46022, Spain;Instituto Interuniversitario de Investigación en Bioingeniería y Tecnología Orientada al Ser Humano, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia 46022, Spain;Graphical Expression Department, Technical University of Cartagena, Cartagena 30202, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Important advances in natural calligraphic interfaces for CAD (Computer Aided Design) applications are being achieved, enabling the development of CAS (Computer Aided Sketching) devices that allow facing up to the conceptual design phase of a product. Recognizers play an important role in this field, allowing the interpretation of the user's intention, but they still present some important lacks. This paper proposes a new recognition paradigm using an agent-based architecture that does not depend on the drawing sequence and takes context information into account to help decisions. Another improvement is the absence of operation modes, that is, no button is needed to distinguish geometry from symbols or gestures, and also ''interspersing'' and ''overtracing'' are accomplished.