Diverse scene stitching from a large-scale aerial video dataset

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 6932-6949

  Yang, Tao ^a   Li, Jing ^b   Yu, Jingyi ^c   Wang, Sibing ^a   Zhang, Yanning ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerial image stitching; Aerial video surveillance; Cross group retrieval; Diverse scene stitching

Indexed keywords

GRAPHIC METHODS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MONITORING;

AERIAL IMAGES; AERIAL VIDEO; AREA OF INTEREST; CONTINUOUS MONITORING; CROSS-GROUP RETRIEVAL; MONITORING MECHANISMS; SEQUENTIAL GROUPING; STATE-OF-THE-ART ALGORITHMS;

SECURITY SYSTEMS;

EID: 84933544302     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70606932     Document Type: Article

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