Building detection from high-resolution PolSAR data at the rectangle level by combining region and edge information

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1077-1088

  Wang, Yinghua ^a,b   Tupin, Florence ^b   Han, Chongzhao ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUT TELECOM   (France)

Author keywords

Building detection; Edge; High resolution polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR); Markov random field (MRF); Rectangle; Region

Indexed keywords

BEST FIT; BUILDING DETECTION; EDGE INFORMATION; EDGE-BASED; HIGH RESOLUTION; MARKOV RANDOM FIELD; NEW APPROACHES; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; PRIOR KNOWLEDGE; RECTANGLE FEATURES; REGION INFORMATION; REGION-BASED; TOTAL ENERGY;

BUILDINGS; DETECTORS; EDGE DETECTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; POLARIMETERS; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; RADAR; STRUCTURAL FRAMES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

GEOMETRY;

EID: 77953130726     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2009.12.034     Document Type: Article

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