BBAuthors: Jasvilis, G.; Advisor: -; Participants: - (2016)
Complex patterns that combine pixels of different brightness and colour in a fixed spatial layout pose a challenge for the objectoriented approach to image analysis. This is because the pixels that make up the pattern cannot readily be linked together into an object as they do not share spectral or textural properties. The goal of this study was to determine whether template matching techniques can be used to identify those patterns without a prior segmentation of the image. We studied three different scenarios that pose specific challenges: the application of template matching is most straightforward in (1) the detection of symbols in scanned maps where different occurrences of a giv... 
