Re: electronic copy of Canny edge detection paper

On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 21:28:40 -0500, "H. S."
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> reverently intoned up the aether:

> Hendrik Belitz wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Since this is an IEEE paper, your chances to get this online are quite bad.
> > Either try to buy it from the IEEE, or get a paper copy via an university
> > library (this is the way i get it).
> >  
> > --
> > Dipl.-Inform. Hendrik Belitz
> > Zentrallabor für Elektronik
> > Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
> 
> Actually I am supposed to put a page or two online for the students of 
> the class I am the TA for. The quality of the scans from the photocopies 
> I have turns out quite poor, so I was wondering if I could get lucky and 
> get a pdf/ps copy somewhere. We don't have PAMI e-journals dating that 
> back. So after searching for a few days, i just scanned my photocopies 
> anyway and put a few pages on my class website for the students (they 
> are working on an assignment: implementing Canny edge detctr). For nicer 
> copies they have been advised to go to the library and get a photocopy.
> 
> I am wondering if IEEE CDROMS or DVDs exist for PAMI papers dating back 
> a few decades, something like the IEEE Trans on Information Theory.
> 
> ->HS

So far as I know the IEEE does allow authors to electronically publish
their own work at their own discretion.  Hence it is often profitable
to find the authors homepage and see if they have published just such
a copy.  

Sadly this is one such paper where that fails.  Albeit, I have not
bothered to email the author to see if he would be willing to do so as
I am only interested in it historically and newer algorithms are
easily found.

An excellent resource for such searches is Citeseer.

http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/cs

This site also caches local copies of articles and will dispense them
in your format of choice from a finite set of formats (pdf, ps, ...).
The one major issue is that the files found from Citeseer may or may
not be final copies and you could be getting a preprint or an article
which has been updated by the author since its publication.  Hence you
should be critical in all your reading found from this source (but you
should be doing that with article you got out of IEEE journals too).

my $0.02,

Sean


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