Machine Interpretation Of Line Drawing Images Technical Drawings, Maps And Diagrams
Contents
- The Line Drawing Interpretation Problem
- Motivation
- Manual Input vs Document Scanning
- RasterBased vs Vector Representations
- The Interpretation Problem
- Engineering Drawings and Maps
- Line Drawing Interpretation, Image Understanding and Pattern Recognition
- Current Line Drawing Interpretation Systems
- Commercial Systems
- Laboratory Systems
- The Line Drawing Interpretation Literature
- Components of a Line Drawing Interpretation System
- Design Criteria for Drawing Interpretation Systems
- Five Stages of Line Drawing Interpretation
- Intermediate and Target Representations
- Raster Representations
- Vector Representations
Universal Drawing Entities
- TwoDimensional Objects
- ThreeDimensional Shape and Semantics
- System Architectures and the Role of A Priori Knowledge
- Sequential Architectures
- Blackboard Architectures: The Expert System Approach
- Document Image Acquisition
- Scanning Devices
- Image Coding
- Image File Formats
- Binarisation
- A Taxonomy of Thresholding Techniques
- Document Image Statistics
- Binarising Line Drawings
- PointDependent Threshold Selection
- RegionDependent Threshold Selection
- Image Partitioning
- Binary Image Processing and the Raster to Vector Transformation
- Raster to Vector Conversion
- Some Defmitions
- The Distance Transform
- Mathematical Morphology
- Reducing Noise in Binary Images
- Reducing Noise in Binary Images of Line Drawings
