Building detection in aerial images based on watershed and visual attention feature descriptors

Proceedings - 2013 International Conference on Computer and Robot Vision, CRV 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 265-272

  Cretu, Ana Maria ^a   Payeur, Pierre ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC EN OUTAOUAIS   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

aerial images; feature descriptors; object recognition; remote sensing; segmentation; visual attention

Indexed keywords

AERIAL IMAGES; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; FEATURE DESCRIPTORS; HUMAN VISUAL ATTENTION; MACHINE LEARNING APPROACHES; RECOGNITION OF OBJECTS; VISUAL ATTENTION; WATERSHED SEGMENTATION ALGORITHM;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER VISION; OBJECT RECOGNITION; REMOTE SENSING;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84883332618     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CRV.2013.8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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