Extraction of building polygons from SAR images: Grouping and decision-level in the GESTALT system

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1071-1076

  Michaelsen, Eckart ^a   Stilla, Uwe ^a   Soergel, Uwe ^a   Doktorski, Leo ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER IOSB   (Germany)

Author keywords

Building recognition; Dynamic programming; Gestalt perception; SAR; Structural pattern recognition

Indexed keywords

BUILDING RECOGNITION; CONSISTENCY ENFORCEMENT; DECISION LAYERS; FINAL DECISION; FLEXIBLE CONTROL; HIGH-RESOLUTION SAR; PERCEPTUAL GROUPING; POST PROCESSING; SAR IMAGES; STRUCTURAL PATTERN RECOGNITION; URBAN SCENES;

BUILDINGS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER VISION;

DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING;

EID: 77953137673     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2009.10.004     Document Type: Article

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