Papaya Tree Detection with UAV Images Using a GPU-Accelerated Scale-Space Filtering Method

Remote Sensing

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2017, Pages

  Jiang, Hao ^a   Chen, Shuisen ^a   Li, Dan ^a   Wang, Chongyang ^a,b,c   Yang, Ji ^a,b,c  

^a GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY   (China)

^b GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

compute unified device architecture (CUDA); graphics processing units (GPU); PyCUDA; scale space; tree detection; unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT DETECTION; ANTENNAS; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT; COST EFFECTIVENESS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

AERIAL VEHICLE; COMPUTE UNIFIED DEVICE ARCHITECTURE; DEVICE ARCHITECTURES; GRAPHIC PROCESSING UNIT; PYCUDA; SCALE SPACES; SCALE-SPACE FILTERING; TREE DETECTIONS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE; VEHICLE IMAGES;

GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT;

EID: 85034732155     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs9070721     Document Type: Article

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