Visual-Pattern Detector (VPD)

Download the Visual-Pattern Detector (VPD) from UHH RDR

Source Code in GitHub

The VPD is an efficient and easy-to-use software tool for pattern detection. This tool can be used to recognise and allocate visual patterns (such as words, drawings and seals) automatically in digitised manuscripts. The recall-precision balance of detected patterns can be controlled visually, and the detected patterns can be saved as annotations on the original images or as cropped images depending on the needs of users.

Please follow these steps to use the VPD on your computer:

1. Download and extract the folder to your local computer.
2. Run the VPD application by double-clicking the executable file "VPD1p3.exe" in your extracted folder.
3. If nothing happened, then try to run it as an administrator (right click --> run as administrator).
4. A command window will start, then the VPD will run in your default internet browser. Although it uses your internet browser, it is an offline application running on your local computer, you do not need internet connection.
5. When you finish using the VPD, you can simply close the command window. 

Relevant publications:

• Mohammed, H., Helman-Wazny, A. . Understanding the Zhangzhung Nyengyu tsakali Collection using Computational Pattern Analysis. In CHAI workshop at 45th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 2022.
• Pattern Analysis Software Tools (PAST) for Written Artefacts, Springer Nature, Document Analysis Systems 2022.
• Learning-free pattern detection for manuscript research: An efficient approach toward making manuscript images searchable, Springer Nature, IJDAR 2021

License:
VDP is licensed under the Creative Commons Attibution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 International

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