A hierarchical and contextual model for aerial image parsing

International Journal of Computer Vision

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 254-283

  Porway, Jake ^a   Wang, Qiongchen ^a,b   Zhu, Song Chun ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Lotus Hill Institute for Computer Vision and Information Science   (China)

Author keywords

Aerial images; Bayesian inference; Hierarchical models; Image understanding; Scene level context; Statistical learning; Swendsen Wang clustering

Indexed keywords

AERIAL IMAGES; BAYESIAN INFERENCE; HIERARCHICAL MODEL; HIERARCHICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL LEARNING;

ADAPTIVE BOOSTING; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; COMPUTER VISION; DETECTORS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; IMAGE UNDERSTANDING; INFERENCE ENGINES; PARKING;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 77951294292     PISSN: 09205691     EISSN: 15731405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11263-009-0306-1     Document Type: Article

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