Detection of Dimension Sets in Engineering Drawings

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 1994, Pages 848-855

  Lai, Chan Pyng ^a   Kasturi, Rangachar ^b  

^a CTC   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Document image analysis; engineering drawings; graphics recognition; image processing; pattern recognition; text segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DRAFTING PRACTICE; DRAWING (GRAPHICS); IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ARROWHEAD TRACKING AND SEARCH METHODS; DIMENSION SETS DETECTION; DOCUMENT IMAGE ANALYSIS; ENGINEERING DRAWINGS; GRAPHICS RECOGNITION; TEXT SEGMENTATION;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 0028482886     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.308483     Document Type: Article

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