Efficient and robust graphics recognition from historical maps

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

Volumn 7423 LNCS, Issue , 2013, Pages 25-35

  Chiang, Yao Yi ^a   Leyk, Stefan ^b   Knoblock, Craig A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Color image segmentation; historical raster maps; image cleaning; road vectorization

Indexed keywords

COLOR IMAGE SEGMENTATION; EXPERT KNOWLEDGE; EXPERT USERS; GRAPHICS RECOGNITION; HISTORICAL MAPS; MAP IMAGE; RASTER MAP; ROAD NETWORK; ROAD VECTORIZATION; USER INTERVENTION; USER TRAINING; VECTOR DATA;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MAPPING; ROADS AND STREETS;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 84873951090     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-36824-0_3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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