Segmentation of textured images is becoming more and more important in applications, as quality control or remotesensing. Segmentation of textured images is demanding. A new genetic algorithm based method to post-pro...
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Segmentation of textured images is becoming more and more important in applications, as quality control or remotesensing. Segmentation of textured images is demanding. A new genetic algorithm based method to post-process segmented texture images is presented. A genetic algorithm is used to extract web-like rules from segmented texture images. These rules are checked and they are used in post-processing to improve the segmentation. An unsupervised image segmentation and definition of classes by class prototypes are assumed. Some preliminary results are presented.
Describes a fusion process between two different data sources, one providing an accurate spatial information, the other providing time series with a much coarser spatial scale. It is applied in the following remote se...
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A comparative study of a selection of classification methods for agricultural fields in sequences of aerial images is presented. The image sequences are acquired by an RGB-CCD video camera which is assumed to be on bo...
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(纸本)0819429589
A comparative study of a selection of classification methods for agricultural fields in sequences of aerial images is presented. The image sequences are acquired by an RGB-CCD video camera which is assumed to be on board of an airplane, moving linear over the scene. The objects in the scenes being considered are agricultural fields. The classes of agricultural fields to be distinguished are determined by the type of crop, e.g. potatoes, sugar beet, wheat, etc. In order to recognize and classify these fields obtained from the aerial sequences of images, a common approach is in the use of surface texture. Textural features are extracted from the images to effectively characterize the vegetation. Methods based on Circular Symmetric Auto-Regression, Go-Occurrence Matrix and Local Binary patterns are selected for the comparative study. The experiments are carried out with image sequences taken from a scaled model of a landscape and a selection from the Brodatz set. A few training images are used to set up the model bases for the three methods. The methods are tested using the same regions from other images of the sequence, and other sequences of images of similar fields. Comparison of the methods is based on the confusion matrix. Sensitivity to variations in flight direction, variations in altitude and luminance conditions are being considered.
An unsupervised texture segmentation approach for multispectral remote-sensingimages is proposed. Firstly, a scale-space filter (SSF) based histogram thresholding is used to threshold each spectrum space of a multisp...
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(纸本)0818685123
An unsupervised texture segmentation approach for multispectral remote-sensingimages is proposed. Firstly, a scale-space filter (SSF) based histogram thresholding is used to threshold each spectrum space of a multispectral remote-sensingimage to detect the major clusters of the multispectral data to generate the principal multispectrum set. Secondly, a GMRF (Gaussian Markov random field) is used to model the multispectral texture image, then the global GMRF parameters in a posteriori distribution probability are estimated. We label each pixel of the image based on the principal multispectrum set and the global GMRF parameters to maximize a posteriori distribution probability (MAP). Thirdly, a uniformity criterion is presented to each pixel in the global segmented image to determine whether it should be estimated the local MRF parameters or not. A max-min distance clustering method is then used to cluster the estimated local MRF parameters to further segment the image. Several remote-sensingimages were processed by the proposed approach to demonstrate the segmentation ability.
In this paper we propose two improvements to standard JPEG coding that can improve the compression ratio achieved for compressing remotesensingimages obtained by sensors on-board microsatellites by more than 39-60%....
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In this paper we propose two improvements to standard JPEG coding that can improve the compression ratio achieved for compressing remotesensingimages obtained by sensors on-board microsatellites by more than 39-60%. The first improvement consists in using a quantisation table that has been shown experimentally to be more appropriate for remotesensingimages. The second and more significant improvement comes from the use of a novel region growing algorithm that can identify the outer border of a cloud region. The blocks that correspond to cloud regions are subsequently smoothed, as they represent unwanted information for the applications we are interested in, and encoded. The results are demonstrated with the help of several real images obtained by the Surrey University satellites.
For the problem of remotesensingimage classification, a basis function network is proposed in this paper. Compared with the backpropagation (BP) network, it avoids the problems of hidden nodes selection and weights ...
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For the problem of remotesensingimage classification, a basis function network is proposed in this paper. Compared with the backpropagation (BP) network, it avoids the problems of hidden nodes selection and weights initialization. The experimental results show that this basis function network has a better performance of classification for complex remotesensingpatterns with fast training time.
Fast finding of circles in images by using the geometric symmetry of the circle and the division of circles into different subimages happen at the same time. Then for each subimage, a fitting algorithm is conducted to...
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(纸本)0780344030
Fast finding of circles in images by using the geometric symmetry of the circle and the division of circles into different subimages happen at the same time. Then for each subimage, a fitting algorithm is conducted to estimate three parameters of a circle. Fully proved by experiments, this method possesses superiority in speed, memory usage and precision as compared with other methods now available.
Describes a fusion process between two different data sources, one providing an accurate spatial information, the other providing time series with a much coarser spatial scale. It is applied in the following remote se...
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Describes a fusion process between two different data sources, one providing an accurate spatial information, the other providing time series with a much coarser spatial scale. It is applied in the following remotesensing context: the forecast of cereals production, which is a challenging application of the new generation of Earth observation satellites. These two data types are required since agronomical models must be fed with a daily sampling of cereals reflectances, and since in Europe, fields have a relatively small size. SPOT-XS is wed to provide spatial information at the parcels level, a meso-scale sensor (here, NOAA-AVHRR), which outputs images of large areas every day, provides the temporal information. The combination of these two data sources makes it possible to daily estimate reflectances of main cultivations at the parcels level. The selected approach is as follows: a preliminary learning stage provides the reflectances of each type of cultivation; then operational scenarios are defined to apply the learning information in order to estimate statistics on large areas: using only one SPOT-XS image and meso-scale daily images, a fusion scheme makes it possible to obtain land use identification at high spatial resolution with its temporal behavior.
Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is a microwave-based remotesensing technique whereby images can be captured when optical images cannot, at night or when there is cloud cover. However, its very low signal-to-noise rati...
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Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is a microwave-based remotesensing technique whereby images can be captured when optical images cannot, at night or when there is cloud cover. However, its very low signal-to-noise ratio (1:1) means that conventional image analysis techniques are unsuitable for SAR imagery. This paper presents a novel approach to the detection of very small objects in SAR imagery, which combines a preprocessing stage with a Hough transform analysis stage using contextual information to identify suitable 'signatures'. The result of this procedure is the fast and accurate identification of airfield runways. The method is based on the fact that the only reliable characteristic of airfield runways visible in SAR images is the location of lights along their sides.
The authors investigate the reliability of a semi-automated system designed to locate the Maltese front from satellite AVHRR and SAR imagery. The opening and closing operations of mathematical morphology afford a mean...
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The authors investigate the reliability of a semi-automated system designed to locate the Maltese front from satellite AVHRR and SAR imagery. The opening and closing operations of mathematical morphology afford a means of image segmentation that provides smooth, strong, continuous edges except where the edges are obscured by clouds or similar phenomena. The authors evaluate the results by comparing them with front positions found by experienced Navy analysts. Their system provides an objective method for front location that is less labor-intensive than manual methods currently in use.
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