Towards an automatic system for road lane marking extraction in large-scale aerial images acquired over rural areas by hierarchical image analysis and Gabor filter

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2747-2769

  Jin, Hang ^a   Feng, Yanming ^a   Li, Maoxun ^b  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b CAPITAL UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; BANDPASS FILTERS; EXTRACTION; GABOR FILTERS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; ROADS AND STREETS; RURAL AREAS;

2-D GABOR FILTER; AUTOMATIC APPROACHES; AUTOMATIC SYSTEMS; HIGH-RESOLUTION AERIAL IMAGES; LANE MARKING EXTRACTIONS; LANE MARKINGS; LOW RESOLUTION IMAGES; ROAD SURFACES;

ROAD AND STREET MARKINGS;

AERIAL SURVEY; FILTER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MARKING METHOD; ROAD; RURAL AREA;

AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 84863239704     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2011.620031     Document Type: Article

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