An Automated Method to Parameterize Segmentation Scale by Enhancing Intrasegment Homogeneity and Intersegment Heterogeneity

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1282-1286

  Yang, Jian ^a   He, Yuhong ^a   Weng, Qihao ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated parameterization; geographic object based image analysis (GEOBIA); image segmentation; urban areas; WorldView 2

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ENERGY FUNCTION METHODS; GEOGRAPHIC OBJECT-BASED IMAGE ANALYSIS; PARAMETERIZATION METHOD; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS; SEGMENTATION TECHNIQUES; URBAN AREAS; USER-DEFINED PARAMETERS; WORLDVIEW-2;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 85027939186     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2015.2393255     Document Type: Article

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