Robust vehicle detection in aerial images based on salient region selection and superpixel classification

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8020, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Sahli, Samir ^a   Duval, Pierre Luc ^a   Sheng, Yunlong ^a   Lavigne, Daniel A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aerial image; Linear Binary Pattern; Over segmentation; Salient regions; SIFT; Superpixels; SVMs; Target detection; Vehicle detection

Indexed keywords

AERIAL IMAGES; BINARY PATTERNS; OVER-SEGMENTATION; SALIENT REGIONS; SIFT; SUPERPIXELS; SVMS; VEHICLE DETECTION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PIXELS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

VEHICLES;

EID: 80052716070     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.883890     Document Type: Conference Paper

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