A survey of digital map processing techniques

YY Chiang, S Leyk, CA Knoblock - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2014 - dl.acm.org
Maps depict natural and human-induced changes on earth at a fine resolution for large
areas and over long periods of time. In addition, maps—especially historical maps—are …

A review of recent advances in scanned topographic map processing

T Liu, P Xu, S Zhang - Neurocomputing, 2019 - Elsevier
Historical topographic maps carry huge information of this planet over a very long period.
Geographic information extraction from topographic map (TM) is helpful for understanding …

SketchMapia: Qualitative representations for the alignment of sketch and metric maps

A Schwering, J Wang, M Chipofya, S Jan… - Spatial cognition & …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
More and more private citizens collect and publish environmental data via web-based
geographic information systems. These systems face two challenges: The user interface …

Automatic delineation of built-up area at urban block level from topographic maps

S Muhs, H Herold, G Meinel, D Burghardt… - … Environment and Urban …, 2016 - Elsevier
To comprehensively study and better understand urban dynamic processes—such as
densification, growth and sprawl, or shrinkage—spatio-temporal databases that allow to …

Automatic understanding of sketch maps using context-aware classification

K Broelemann, X Jiang, A Schwering - Expert systems with applications, 2016 - Elsevier
Sketching is a natural and easy way for humans to express visual information in everyday
life. Despite a number of approaches to understand online sketch maps, the automatic …

Analysis and interpretation of graphical documents

B Lamiroy, JM Ogier - Handbook of Document Image Processing …, 2014 - inria.hal.science
This chapter is dedicated to the analysis and the interpretation of graphical documents, and
as such, builds upon many of the topics covered in other parts of this handbook. It will …

Qualitative representations of schematized and distorted street segments in sketch maps

S Jan, A Schwering, M Chipofya, J Wang - Spatial Cognition IX …, 2014 - Springer
Over the past years, user-generated content has gained more prominence in the area of
geographic information science. In many geo-spatial applications, sketch maps are …

[PDF][PDF] Urban Patterns: Using Spatial Arrangement for Vision-Based Place Recognition and Localisation

P Panphattarasap - 2019 - research-information.bris.ac.uk
In this thesis, we investigate the impact of using visual landmarks with spatial knowledge to
improve the performance of vision-based localisation. We separate our work into two parts …