Layout indexing of trademark images

Ensuring the uniqueness of trademark images and protecting their identities are the most important objectives for the trademark registration process. To prevent trademark infringement, each new trademark must be compared to a database of existing trademarks. Given a newly designed trademark image, trademark retrieval systems are not only concerned with finding images with similar shapes but also locating images with similar layouts. Performing a linearsearch, i.e., computing the similarity between the query and each database entry and selecting the closest one, is inefficient for large database systems. An effective and efficient indexing mechanism is, therefore, essential to select a small collection of candidates. This paper proposes a framework in which a graph-based indexing schema will be applied to facilitate efficient trademark retrieval based on spatial relations between image components, regardless of mutual shape similarity. Our framework starts by segmenting trademark ima...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: CIVR
• Authors: Reinier H. van Leuken, M. Fatih Demirci, Victoria J. Hodge, Jim Austin, Remco C. Veltkamp
• Keywords: CIVR 2007, Graph-based Indexing Schema, Trademark, Trademark Images