Building Detection from Monocular VHR Images by Integrated Urban Area Knowledge

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 2140-2144

  Manno Kovacs, Andrea ^a   Ok, Ali Ozgun ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE AND CONTROL   (Hungary)

^b NEVSEHIR HACI BEKTAS VELI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Automated building detection; Flexible multilabel partitioning; Graph cuts; Satellite images; Urban area detection

Indexed keywords

GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING;

AUTOMATED BUILDINGS; GRAPH CUT; MULTI-LABEL; SATELLITE IMAGES; URBAN AREAS;

GRAPHIC METHODS;

EID: 85027943286     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2015.2452962     Document Type: Article

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