Identification of geometrical shapes in paintings and its application to demonstrate the foundations of geometry in 1650 B.C

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 862-873

  Papaodysseus, Constantin ^a   Exarhos, Mihalis ^a   Panagopoulos, Thanasis ^a   Triantafillou, Constantin ^a   Roussopoulos, George ^a   Pantazi, Afroditi ^a   Loumos, Vassili ^a   Fragoulis, Dimitrios ^a   Doumas, Christos ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Foundation of geometry via image processing; Image processing on paintings; Image shape analysis; Prehistoric geometry via pattern extraction

Indexed keywords

DRAWING (GRAPHICS); FEATURE EXTRACTION; FUZZY SETS; GEOMETRY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

FOUNDATIONS OF GEOMETRY; IMAGE SHAPE ANALYSIS; PREHISTORIC GEOMETRY; WALL PAINTINGS;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; GREECE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; PAINTING;

ALGORITHMS; ARCHAEOLOGY; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; GREECE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PAINTINGS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED;

EID: 21244456138     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2005.849297     Document Type: Article

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