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The segmentation and vectorization of line drawings is well studied (see Chap. 1 for related work), however, no analytic solution has been proposed to date, and therefore, the existing methods are ad hoc and based on heuristics. Most methods also need some amount of tweaking for the specific kind of drawings to be analyzed. We present our approach to these problems here, and this development has been done in the context of the semantic analysis of scanned images of mechanical CAD engineering drawings.
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Some parts of this chapter are contributed by Chimiao Xu based on her MS thesis.
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Henderson, T.C. (2014). Segmentation and Vectorization. In: Analysis of Engineering Drawings and Raster Map Images. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8167-7_2
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