A region-based level set segmentation for automatic detection of Man-made objects from aerial and satellite images

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 667-677

  Karantzalos, Konstantinos ^a   Argialas, Demertre ^b  

^a Ecole Centrale de Paris   (France)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURVE FITTING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; SATELLITES;

AUTOMATIC DETECTION; LEVEL SET SEGMENTATION; NUMBER OF ITERATIONS; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION; REAL-TIME APPLICATION; SATELLITE IMAGES; STATISTICAL DESCRIPTIONS; VARIATIONAL MODELING;

OBJECT DETECTION;

AERIAL SURVEY; ALGORITHM; AUTOMATION; DETECTION METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MANMADE STRUCTURE; MODELING; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEGMENTATION;

EID: 67650869552     PISSN: 00991112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14358/PERS.75.6.667     Document Type: Article

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