Edge-based identification of DP-features on free-form solids

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 851-860

  Lim, T ^a   Medellin, H ^a   Torres Sanchez, C ^a   Corney, J R ^a   Ritchie, J M ^a   Davies, J B C ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CAD; CAM; CAPP; Geometric modeling; Three dimensional geometric feature recognition

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER AIDED MANUFACTURING; EDGE DETECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

FREE-FORM SOLIDS; GEOMETRIC MODELING; THREE DIMENSIONAL GEOMETRIC FEATURE RECOGNITION;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED;

EID: 21244473271     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2005.118     Document Type: Article

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