Automating information extraction from large historical topographic map archives: New opportunities and challenges

JH Uhl, W Duan - Handbook of big geospatial data, 2020 - Springer
Historical maps constitute unique sources of retrospective geographic information. Recently,
several archives containing historical map series covering large spatial and temporal …

[HTML][HTML] Vectorizing historical maps with topological consistency: A hybrid approach using transformers and contour-based instance segmentation

X **a, T Zhang, M Heitzler, L Hurni - International Journal of Applied Earth …, 2024 - Elsevier
Reducing the complexity of the workflow for historical map vectorization is essential to
promote the widespread utilization of historical spatial data. Traditional pixel-wise …

The results of digitizing historical maps: comparison of Lithuanian land-use structure in the 19th and 21st centuries

E Piškinaitė, D Veteikis - Land, 2023 - mdpi.com
Studies of long-term land-use changes can reveal significant results about land use in the
past and lead to the main causes of these changes being revealed. We georeferenced 27 …

[HTML][HTML] Building block extraction from historical maps using deep object attention networks

Y Zhao, G Wang, J Yang, L Zhang, X Qi - ISPRS International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The geographical feature extraction of historical maps is an important foundation for
realizing the transition from human map reading to machine map reading. The current …

CNN-Based template matching for detecting features from historical maps

X **a, M Heitzler, L Hurni - International Archives of the …, 2022 - research-collection.ethz.ch
Efficiently detecting features from historical maps is a challenging task due to its inconsistent
manual scribbling styles and the lack of large scale labelled training data. To tackle this …

MapSAM: Adapting Segment Anything Model for Automated Feature Detection in Historical Maps

X **a, D Zhang, W Song, W Huang, L Hurni - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Automated feature detection in historical maps can significantly accelerate the
reconstruction of the geospatial past. However, this process is often constrained by the time …

Self-supervised Video Instance Segmentation Can Boost Geographic Entity Alignment in Historical Maps

X **a, R Balestriero, T Zhang, L Hurni - arxiv preprint arxiv:2411.17425, 2024 - arxiv.org
Tracking geographic entities from historical maps, such as buildings, offers valuable insights
into cultural heritage, urbanization patterns, environmental changes, and various historical …

Content-based Image Retrieval for Map Georeferencing

J Luft, J Schiewe - Proceedings of the ICA, 2021 - ica-proc.copernicus.org
In recent years, libraries have made great progress in digitising troves of historical maps with
high-resolution scanners. Providing user-friendly information access for cultural heritage …

Video Instance Segmentation is All You Need for Linking Geographic Entities from Historical Maps

X **a, T Zhang, L Hurni - IGARSS 2024-2024 IEEE International …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Numerous historical research endeavors necessitate synthesizing information derived from
multiple historical maps. Linking geographic entities across diverse maps has posed a …