Towards automating artifact analysis: A study showing potential applications of computer vision and morphometrics to artifact typology

Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences

Volumn 124, Issue , 2010, Pages 289-305

  Lenardi, Michael J ^a   Merwin, Daria E ^b  

^a NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84971338514     PISSN: 09300317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-95853-6_13     Document Type: Chapter

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