MAGELLAN: Map Acquisition of GEographic Labels by Legend ANalysis

International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 89-101

  Samet, Hanan ^a   Soffer, Aya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Document analysis; Geographic information systems (GIS); Image databases; Map recognition; Object recognition

Indexed keywords

DOCUMENT ANALYSIS; IMAGE DATABASE; LARGE AMOUNTS; MAGELLAN; STATISTICAL PATTERN RECOGNITION; SYMBOLIC KNOWLEDGE; TRAINING SETS; USER INTERACTION;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); OBJECT RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0001870481     PISSN: 14332833     EISSN: 14332825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100320050009     Document Type: Article

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