Knowledge-based interpretation of utility maps

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 105-117

  Den Hartog, J E ^a,b   Ten Kate, T K ^a   Gerbrands, J J ^b  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE BASED INTERPRETATION; MAP INTERPRETATION; SEMANTIC NETWORK; UTILITY MAP;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; IMAGE PROCESSING; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; OBJECT RECOGNITION;

KNOWLEDGE BASED INTERPRETATION; PUBLIC UTILITY MAPS; REASONING; SEMANTIC NETWORK; TOP DOWN CONTROL MECHANISM;

IMAGE UNDERSTANDING;

EID: 0029734647     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cviu.1996.0007     Document Type: Article

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