Efficient shadow detection of color aerial images based on successive thresholding scheme

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 671-682

  Chung, Kuo Liang ^a   Lin, Yi Ru ^a   Huang, Yong Huai ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Coarse to fine strategy; Color aerial image; Shadow detection; Successive thresholding scheme (STS)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COLOR; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OBJECT RECOGNITION; WIMAX;

COARSE-TO-FINE STRATEGY; COLOR AERIAL IMAGE; CONNECTED COMPONENTS; DETECTION PERFORMANCE; EFFICIENT ALGORITHMS; EXPONENTIAL FUNCTIONS; GLOBAL THRESHOLDING; LOCAL THRESHOLDING; SHADOW DETECTION; SHADOW DETERMINATIONS; SHADOW REGIONS; SUCCESSIVE THRESHOLDING SCHEME (STS);

PIXELS;

ALGORITHM; COLOR; DETECTION METHOD; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING METHOD; PIXEL; THRESHOLD;

EID: 59849126986     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.2004629     Document Type: Conference Paper

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