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Automatic detection of geospatial objects using multiple hierarchical segmentations
Cataloged from PDF version of article.The object-based analysis of remotely sensed imagery
provides valuable spatial and structural information that
is complementary to pixel-based spectral information in classi-
fication. In this paper, we present novel methods for automatic
object detection in high-resolution images by combining spectral
information with structural information exploited by using
image segmentation. The proposed segmentation algorithm uses
morphological operations applied to individual spectral bands
using structuring elements in increasing sizes. These operations
produce a set of connected components forming a hierarchy of
segments for each band. A generic algorithm is designed to select
meaningful segments that maximize a measure consisting
of spectral homogeneity and neighborhood connectivity. Given
the observation that different structures appear more clearly at
different scales in different spectral bands, we describe a new
algorithm for unsupervised grouping of candidate segments belonging
to multiple hierarchical segmentations to find coherent
sets of segments that correspond to actual objects. The segments
are modeled by using their spectral and textural content, and
the grouping problem is solved by using the probabilistic latent
semantic analysis algorithm that builds object models by learning
the object-conditional probability distributions. The automatic
labeling of a segment is done by computing the similarity of its
feature distribution to the distribution of the learned object models
using the Kullback–Leibler divergence. The performances of the
unsupervised segmentation and object detection algorithms are
evaluated qualitatively and quantitatively using three different
data sets with comparative experiments, and the results show that
the proposed methods are able to automatically detect, group, and
label segments belonging to the same object classes
Mitigating the effects of atmospheric distortion using DT-CWT fusion
This paper describes a new method for mitigating the effects of atmospheric distortion on observed images, particularly airborne turbulence which degrades a region of interest (ROI). In order to provide accurate detail from objects behind the dis-torting layer, a simple and efficient frame selection method is proposed to pick informative ROIs from only good-quality frames. We solve the space-variant distortion problem using region-based fusion based on the Dual Tree Complex Wavelet Transform (DT-CWT). We also propose an object alignment method for pre-processing the ROI since this can exhibit sig-nificant offsets and distortions between frames. Simple haze removal is used as the final step. The proposed method per-forms very well with atmospherically distorted videos and outperforms other existing methods. Index Terms — Image restoration, fusion, DT-CWT 1
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