Extracting contour lines from scanned topographic maps

Proceedings - International Conference on Computer Graphics, Imaging and Visuualization, CGIV 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 187-192

  San, Loh Mun ^a   Yatim, Safie Mat ^a   Md Sheriff, Noor Azam ^a   Ismail, Nik Isrozaidi Bin Nik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Contour line extraction; Feature extraction; Image analysis; Map segmentation; Object recognition

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; DATA ACQUISITION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; OBJECT RECOGNITION;

CONTOUR LINE EXTRACTION; CONTOUR LINES; MAP SEGMENTATION; VECTORIZATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 13944267487     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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