Linear-time algorithms for testing the realisability of line drawings of curved objects

Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 31-67

  Cooper, Martin C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER VISION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

CURVED OBJECTS; LINE DRAWINGS; LINEAR TIME ALGORITHMS;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY;

EID: 0033620276     PISSN: 00043702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0004-3702(98)00118-0     Document Type: Article

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