9. Conclusion and future directions
In spite of considerable amount of work afforded for logo and seal detection/spotting in the literature, this problem still needs more efforts and research. Since detection/spotting result has direct effect to the recognition/retrieval accuracy, it is reasonable to have a feedback from the recognition/retrieval step to the detection/spotting step allowing the detection step to correct itself. Therefore, developing strategies, which consider both the problems of detection/spotting and recognition/retrieval in a single framework using some feedback policies, can improve the overall system performance. In such a scenario, the recognition task must be accomplished quickly in the presence of geometric transformation, noise, over/under segmentation and possible occlusion [5,75].