Arrowhead recognition during automated data capture

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 277-286

  Priestnall, G ^a   Marston, R E ^a   Elliman, D G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arrowheads; Engineering drawings; Medial lines; Outline loops; Thinning

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DATA STRUCTURES; DRAWING (GRAPHICS); IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CODING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

DRAWING CONVERSION;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 0030571809     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-8655(95)00117-4     Document Type: Article

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