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In the current scenario of the economic developments in to capture the world market growing role of Trademarks is to attract customers and beat over the imitated/fake products and services. Trademark registration is becoming a critical issue. New trademarks need to be distinct from existing millions of trademarks. This demand searching their similarity out of all trademarks is a typical combina...

Trademarks are considered as valuable intellectual properties. They play very important roles for successful business or companies. The logos or trademarks are also very significant objects in consumer world applications, because they are specially designed marks to identify and represent not only the quality of actual products but also the reputation of companies, products and services. With t...

In this paper we propose a method to retrieve trademarks using query by sketches. The trademark images are first filtered to remove noise. Then each filtered image is segmented into regions based on pixel connectivity. For each region, a decision is made about whether thinning or edge extraction should be applied. Afterwards stroke tracing is performed to extract the sketch of the trademark. Th...