A General Approach to Discovering, Registering, and Extracting Features from Raster Maps

Google Tech Talk August 25, 2010 ABSTRACT Presented by Craig Knoblock. Maps can be a great source of information for a given geographic region, but they can be difficult to find and even harder to process. A significant problem is that many interesting and useful maps are only available in raster format, and even worse many maps have been poorly scanned and they are often compressed with lossy compression algorithms. Furthermore, for many of these maps there is no meta data providing the

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