A hierarchical approach to efficient curvilinear object searching

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 208-220

  Hu, Jianying ^a   Pavlidis, Theo ^b  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b Stony Brook University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CHARACTER RECOGNITION; DATA STRUCTURES; GEOMETRY; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; IMAGE UNDERSTANDING;

CURSIVE HANDWRITING RECOGNITION; CURVILINEAR OBJECT SEARCHING; ROAD IMAGE MATCHING;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 0030107185     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cviu.1996.0015     Document Type: Article

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