Line detection method with robustness against contrast and width variation applied in gradient vector field

Systems and Computers in Japan

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 49-58

  Yoshinaga, Yukiyasu ^a   Kobatake, Hidefumi ^b  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; HOUGH TRANSFORMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VECTORS;

GRADIENT VECTOR FIELDS; LINE DETECTION;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 0033875324     PISSN: 08821666     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-684X(200003)31:3<49::AID-SCJ6>3.0.CO;2-4     Document Type: Article

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