GRAPH MATCHING AND LEARNING IN PATTERN RECOGNITION IN THE LAST 10 YEARS.

In this paper, we examine the main advances registered in the last ten years in Pattern Recognition methodologies based on graph matching and related techniques, analyzing more than 180 papers; the aim is to provide a systematic framework presenting the recent history and the current developments. This is made by introducing a categorization of graph-based techniques and reporting, for each class, the main contributions and the most outstanding research results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]