Development of a Computer Aided Digitization System for Measured Drawings of Archaeological Remains

由于考古挖掘基本上是一个破坏性的过程，测量图纸是最重要的记录之一。大多数测量图首先是在挖掘现场手绘的，然后考古学家花费大量的时间通过点击无数的点将扫描到的图转换成数字矢量格式。提出的栅格-矢量转换算法将改善这种不方便的情况。矢量化实验使用以色列Tel Rekhesh考古遗迹的扫描测量图进行。结果表明，该算法可以大大减少手动点击和编辑的后续过程。

Since archaeological excavation is basically a destructive process, measured drawings are one of the most important records. Most of measured drawings are first hand-drawn at excavation sites and then archaeologists spend enormous amount of time in converting scanned drawings into digital vector formats by clicking innumerable points. The proposed raster-vector conversion algorithm will improve such inconvenient circumstances. Vectorization experiments are performed using scanned measured drawings of the archaeological remains at Tel Rekhesh, Israel. The resultant drawings demonstrate that the algorithm can drastically reduce the following process of manual clicking and editing.