Feature Identification from Vectorized Mechanical Drawings

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 127-145

  Langrana, Noshir A ^a   Chen, Yuan ^a   Das, Atish K ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DRAWING (GRAPHICS); FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ENGINEERING DRAWING; PATTERN MATCHING PROCESS;

OBJECT RECOGNITION;

EID: 0031269747     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cviu.1997.0548     Document Type: Article

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