Segmentation of colour layers in historical maps based on hierarchical colour sampling

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6020 LNCS, Issue , 2010, Pages 231-241

  Leyk, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

cartographic pattern recognition; Colour image segmentation; historical maps; homogeneity; two stage colour sampling

Indexed keywords

COLOUR IMAGE SEGMENTATION; HISTORICAL MAPS; HOMOGENEITY; TWO STAGE; TWO-STAGE COLOUR SAMPLING;

COPYING; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAPPING; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

COLOR;

EID: 77954582685     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-13728-0_21     Document Type: Conference Paper

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