A hierarchical approach to line extraction based on the Hough transform

Computer Vision, Graphics, & Image Processing

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 1990, Pages 57-77

  Princen, J ^a   Illingworth, J ^a   Kittler, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIERARCHICAL METHOD; HOUGH TRANSFORM; LINE EXTRACTION;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING--ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; HOUGH TRANSFORM; LINE EXTRACTION;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0025571681     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0734-189X(90)90123-D     Document Type: Article

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