Deep learning approach for car detection in UAV imagery

Remote Sensing

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2017, Pages

  Ammour, Nassim ^a   Alhichri, Haikel ^a   Bazi, Yakoub ^a   Benjdira, Bilel ^a   Alajlan, Naif ^a   Zuair, Mansour ^a  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Car counting; Convolutional neural networks (CNNs); Deep learning; Mean shift segmentation; Support vector machines (SVM); UAV imagery

Indexed keywords

CONVOLUTION; DEEP LEARNING; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; NEURAL NETWORKS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

AUTOMATIC ANALYSIS METHOD; CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK; LINEAR SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; MEAN-SHIFT SEGMENTATION; MORPHOLOGICAL DILATION; RECTANGULAR WINDOWS; STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS; VERY HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTIONS;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 85017644249     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs9040312     Document Type: Article

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