Detection of horizontal lines in noisy run length encoded images: The FAST method

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

Volumn 1072, Issue , 1996, Pages 35-48

  Chhabra, Atul K ^a   Misra, Vishal ^a   Arias, Juan ^a  

^a VERIZON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTERS;

CONVERSION SYSTEMS; FALSE POSITIVE; FAST METHODS; RELIABLE DETECTION; RUN LENGTH; TELEPHONE COMPANIES; THRESHOLDING;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 84948952240     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-61226-2_4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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