High-quality polygonal contour approximation based on relaxation

Proceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR

Volumn 2001-January, Issue , 2001, Pages 361-365

  Mikheev, Artem ^a   Vincent, Luc ^a   Faber, Vance ^a  

^a LizardTech Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CHAINS; ITERATIVE METHODS; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

ENGINEERING DRAWING; FREEMAN CHAIN CODE; LINE DRAWINGS; OCR ALGORITHMS; POLYGONAL APPROXIMATIONS; RASTER TO VECTOR; RELAXATION TECHNIQUES; SCANNED TEXT;

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84951767142     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2001.953814     Document Type: Article

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