Shadow-Based Rooftop Segmentation in Visible Band Images

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 2063-2077

  Femiani, John ^a   Li, Er ^a   Razdan, Anshuman ^a   Wonka, Peter ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Buildings; rooftops detectors; shadows; urban areas

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; INFRARED DEVICES; STATISTICAL TESTS;

AERIAL IMAGES; F-SCORE; INTERACTIVE IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MULTIPLE VIEWPOINTS; NEAR INFRARED; SHADOWS; URBAN AREAS; VISIBLE BAND;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

AERIAL SURVEY; ALGORITHM; BUILDING; DETECTION METHOD; ERROR CORRECTION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; PRECISION; ROOF; SEGMENTATION; SHADING; URBAN AREA;

EID: 85027933068     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2014.2369475     Document Type: Article

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