A discrepancy measure for segmentation evaluation from the perspective of object recognition

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 101, Issue , 2015, Pages 186-192

  Yang, Jian ^a   He, Yuhong ^a   Caspersen, John ^a   Jones, Trevor ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b ONTARIO MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Corresponding segment; Discrepancy measurement; GEOBIA; Object recognition; Segmentation evaluation; SEI

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OBJECT RECOGNITION; REMOTE SENSING; SEEBECK EFFECT;

CORRESPONDING SEGMENT; GEOBIA; GEOGRAPHIC OBJECT-BASED IMAGE ANALYSIS; RECOGNITION ACCURACY; REMOTE SENSING IMAGES; SEGMENTATION DIFFERENCES; SEGMENTATION EVALUATION; SEI;

QUALITY CONTROL;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84920934323     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2014.12.015     Document Type: Article

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