1 - A Phase Field Model Incorporating Generic and Specific Prior Knowledge Applied to Road Network Extraction from VHR Satellite Images.
T. Peng and I. H. Jermyn and V. Prinet and J. Zerubia and B. Hu. In Proc. British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), Warwick, UK, September 2007.
Keywords : Road network, Very high resolution, Higher-order, Active contour, Shape, Prior.
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{Peng, T. and Jermyn, I. H. and Prinet, V. and Zerubia, J. and Hu, B.}, |
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{A Phase Field Model Incorporating Generic and Specific Prior Knowledge Applied to Road Network Extraction from VHR Satellite Images}, |
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{2007}, |
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{September}, |
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{Proc. British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC)}, |
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{Warwick, UK}, |
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{ftp://ftp-sop.inria.fr/ariana/Articles/2007_Peng07a.pdf}, |
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{Road network, Very high resolution, Higher-order, Active contour, Shape, Prior} |
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Abstract :
We address the problem of updating road maps in dense urban areas by extracting the main road network from a very high resolution (VHR) satellite image. Our model of the region occupied by the road network in the image is innovative. It incorporates three different types of prior geometric knowledge: generic boundary smoothness constraints, equivalent to a standard active contour prior; knowledge of the geometric properties of road networks (i.e. that they occupy regions composed of long, low-curvature segments joined at junctions), equivalent to a higher-order active contour prior; and knowledge of the road network at an earlier date derived from GIS data, similar to other ‘shape priors’ in the literature. In addition, we represent the road network region as a ‘phase field’, which offers a number of important advantages over other region modelling frameworks. All three types of prior knowledge prove important for overcoming the complexity of geometric ‘noise’ in VHR images. Promising results and a comparison with several other techniques demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach. |
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