Machine Interpretation of Line Drawing Images
Subtitle: Technical Drawings, Maps and Diagrams
By: by Sergey Ablameyko, Tony Pridmore
Contributors: Pridmore, Tony
Publisher: Springer London
Published: 2000
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9781447112020; 9781447107897
Subjects: Optical pattern recognition; Computer vision; Computer science
Description: Line drawing interpretation is a challenging area with enormous practical potential. At present, many companies throughout the world invest large amounts of money and human resource in the input of paper drawings into computers. The technology needed to produce an image of a drawing is widely available, but the transformation of these images into more useful forms is an active field of research and development. Machine Interpretation of Line Drawing Images - describes the theory and practice underlying the computer interpretation of line drawing images and - shows how line drawing interpretation systems can be developed. The authors show how many of the problems can be tackled and provide a thorough overview of the processes underpinning the interpretation of images of line drawings.
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Table of contents: title: The Line Drawing Interpretation Problem; title: Components of a Line Drawing Interpretation System; title: Document Image Acquisition; title: Binarisation; title: Binary Image Processing and the Raster to Vector Transformation; title: Analysis of Connected Components; title: Vectorisation; title: Interpreting Images of Maps; title: Recognising Cartographic Objects; title: Recovering Engineering Drawing Entities from Vector Data; title: Knowledge-Directed Interpretation of Engineering Drawings; title: Output and Conclusions; title: References; title: Index. The complete table of contents can be found on the Internet: http://www.springer.de.