Modern vectorization and alignement of historical maps: An application to paris atlas (1789-1950)
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Abstract Maps have been a unique source of knowledge for centuries. Such historical documents provide invaluable information for analyzing complex spatial transformations over important time frames. This is particularly true for urban areas that encompass multiple interleaved research domains: humanities, social sciences, etc. The large amount and significant diversity of map sources call for automatic image processing techniques in order to extract the relevant objects as vector features. The complexity of maps (text, noise, digitization artifacts, etc.