An introduction to vectorization and segmentation

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

Volumn 1389, Issue , 1998, Pages 1-8

  Doermann, David S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTERS;

SHORT LISTS; VECTORIZATION;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 84961377879     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-64381-8_34     Document Type: Conference Paper

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