Recognize hand drawn shape in OpenCV

Question

I have the following task: recognize a set of simple hand-drawn shapes on a sheet of paper from a still image (not a video stream), so they might not be exactly identically pixelwise.

Those shapes are basically symbols for doors, windows, etc. in a floor plan (see attached image), so they might be slightly scaled or rotated (90° steps). There are about 5 different ones.

So far I came across SIFT (and its OpenCV-variants SURF and ORB ) as well as a cascaded classifier to recognize haar-like features .

For SIFT there seem to be too little key points in such a shape whereas I did not manage to get the haar-trained cascaded classifier to work. Also, a cascaded classifier seems a bit heavy for recognizing such simple shapes, no?

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Does anyone of you have any good hints or alternative approaches? Or maybe you even have a snippet of code lying around which I can use?

Answer 1

我认为，梯度直方图（HOG）对于此类元素应适用。