Three-dimensional approach to thresholding seal impressions

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 719-724

  Horiuchi, Takahiko ^a   Rioux, Marc ^b   Haruki, Ryoji ^a   Yamamoto, Kazuhiko ^c   Yamada, Hiromitsu ^c   Toraichi, Kazuo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^c ELECTROTECHNICAL LABORATORY   (Japan)

Author keywords

3D model; Hough transform; Image recognition; Range finder; Seal impression; Threshold

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE; RANGE FINDERS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

AUTOMATIC SEAL IDENTIFICATION; HOUGH TRANSFORM; SEAL IMPRESSION; THRESHOLD; TWO DIMENSIONAL IMAGES;

OBJECT RECOGNITION;

EID: 0030150645     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-3203(95)00125-5     Document Type: Article

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