Road centerline extraction in complex urban scenes from LiDAR data based on multiple features

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 7448-7456

  Hu, Xiangyun ^a   Li, Yijing ^b   Shan, Jie ^a,c   Zhang, Jianqing ^a   Zhang, Yongjun ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANCHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Feature extraction; light detection and ranging (LiDAR); pattern recognition; remote sensing; road detection

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); EXTRACTION; HOUGH TRANSFORMS; OPTICAL RADAR; PATTERN RECOGNITION; REMOTE SENSING; ROADS AND STREETS; TEMPLATE MATCHING; TENSORS;

3-D BUILDING RECONSTRUCTION; ADAPTIVE MEAN SHIFTS; CENTERLINE EXTRACTION; GEOMETRIC PRIMITIVES; INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; ROAD DETECTION; WEIGHTED HOUGH TRANSFORMS;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

BUILDING; DETECTION METHOD; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIDAR; PATTERN RECOGNITION; REMOTE SENSING; ROAD; URBAN AREA;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA]; TORONTO;

EID: 84902107068     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2014.2312793     Document Type: Article

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