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42 - Phase diagram of a long bar under a higher-order active contour energy: application to hydrographic network extraction from VHR satellite images. A. El Ghoul and I. H. Jermyn and J. Zerubia. In International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Tampa, Florida, December 2008. Keywords : Phase diagram, Higher-order actif contours, Shape, river extraction. @INPROCEEDINGS{ElGhoul08b, author = {El Ghoul, A. and Jermyn, I. H. and Zerubia, J.}, title = {Phase diagram of a long bar under a higher-order active contour energy: application to hydrographic network extraction from VHR satellite images}, year = {2008}, month = {December}, booktitle = {International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR)}, address = {Tampa, Florida}, url = {https://hal.inria.fr/inria-00316619}, pdf = {http://hal.inria.fr/docs/00/31/66/19/PDF/icpr08aymenelghoul.pdf}, keyword = {Phase diagram, Higher-order actif contours, Shape, river extraction} } Abstract : The segmentation of networks is important in several imaging domains, and models incorporating prior shape knowledge are often essential for the automatic performance of this task. Higher-order active contours provide a way to include such knowledge, but their behaviour can vary significantly with parameter values: e.g. the same energy can model networks or a ‘gas of circles’. In this paper, we present a stability analysis of a HOAC energy leading to the phase diagram of a long bar. The results, which are confirmed by numerical experiments, enable the selection of parameter values for the modelling of network shapes using the energy. We apply the resulting model to the problem of hydrographic network extraction from VHR satellite images.

43 - An extended phase field higher-order active contour model for networks and its application to road network extraction from VHR satellite images. T. Peng and I. H. Jermyn and V. Prinet and J. Zerubia. In Proc. European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Marseille, France, October 2008. Keywords : Dense urban area, Phase Field, Road network, Variational methods, Very high resolution. Copyright : @INPROCEEDINGS{Peng08c, author = {Peng, T. and Jermyn, I. H. and Prinet, V. and Zerubia, J.}, title = {An extended phase field higher-order active contour model for networks and its application to road network extraction from VHR satellite images}, year = {2008}, month = {October}, booktitle = {Proc. European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)}, address = {Marseille, France}, pdf = {http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-540-88690-7_38}, keyword = {Dense urban area, Phase Field, Road network, Variational methods, Very high resolution} } Abstract : This paper addresses the segmentation from an image of entities that have the form of a 'network', i.e. the region in the image corresponding to the entity is composed of branches joining together at junctions, e.g. road or vascular networks. We present a new phase field higher-order active contour (HOAC) prior model for network regions, and apply it to the segmentation of road networks from very high resolution satellite images. This is a hard problem for two reasons. First, the images are complex, with much 'noise' in the road region due to cars, road markings, etc., while the background is very varied, containing many features that are locally similar to roads. Second, network regions are complex to model, because they may have arbitrary topology. In particular, we address a severe limitation of a previous model in which network branch width was constrained to be similar to maximum network branch radius of curvature, thereby providing a poor model of networks with straight narrow branches or highly curved, wide branches. To solve this problem, we propose a new HOAC prior energy term, and reformulate it as a nonlocal phase field energy. We analyse the stability of the new model, and find that in addition to solving the above problem by separating the interactions between points on the same and opposite sides of a network branch, the new model permits the modelling of two widths simultaneously. The analysis also fixes some of the model parameters in terms of network width(s). After adding a likelihood energy, we use the model to extract the road network quasi-automatically from pieces of a QuickBird image, and compare the results to other models in the literature. The results demonstrate the superiority of the new model, the importance of strong prior knowledge in general, and of the new term in particular.

44 - Unsupervised One-Class SVM Using a Watershed Algorithm and Hysteresis Thresholding to Detect Burnt Areas. O. Zammit and X. Descombes and J. Zerubia. In Proc. International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (PRIA), Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, September 2008. Keywords : Classification, Segmentation, Support Vector Machines, Burnt areas, Forest fires, Satellite images. Copyright : @INPROCEEDINGS{zammit_pria_08, author = {Zammit, O. and Descombes, X. and Zerubia, J.}, title = {Unsupervised One-Class SVM Using a Watershed Algorithm and Hysteresis Thresholding to Detect Burnt Areas}, year = {2008}, month = {September}, booktitle = {Proc. International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (PRIA)}, address = {Nizhny Novgorod, Russia}, pdf = {http://hal.inria.fr/inria-00316297/fr/}, keyword = {Classification, Segmentation, Support Vector Machines, Burnt areas, Forest fires, Satellite images} }

45 - Combining One-Class Support Vector Machines and hysteresis thresholding: application to burnt area mapping. O. Zammit and X. Descombes and J. Zerubia. In Proc. European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Lausanne, Switzerland, August 2008. Note : to appear. Keywords : Classification, Satellite images, Support Vector Machines, Burnt areas, Forest fires, Clustering. Copyright : @INPROCEEDINGS{zammit_eusipco_08, author = {Zammit, O. and Descombes, X. and Zerubia, J.}, title = {Combining One-Class Support Vector Machines and hysteresis thresholding: application to burnt area mapping}, year = {2008}, month = {August}, booktitle = {Proc. European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO)}, address = {Lausanne, Switzerland}, url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=7080254}, keyword = {Classification, Satellite images, Support Vector Machines, Burnt areas, Forest fires, Clustering} }

46 - Unsupervised Hierarchical Image Segmentation based on the TS-MRF model and Fast Mean-Shift Clustering. R. Gaetano and G. Scarpa and G. Poggi and J. Zerubia. In Proc. European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Lausanne, Switzerland, August 2008. Keywords : Segmentation, Markov Random Fields, Mean Shift, Land Classification. @INPROCEEDINGS{Gaetano2008, author = {Gaetano, R. and Scarpa, G. and Poggi, G. and Zerubia, J.}, title = {Unsupervised Hierarchical Image Segmentation based on the TS-MRF model and Fast Mean-Shift Clustering}, year = {2008}, month = {August}, booktitle = {Proc. European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO)}, address = {Lausanne, Switzerland}, pdf = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=7080521}, keyword = {Segmentation, Markov Random Fields, Mean Shift, Land Classification} } Abstract : Tree-Structured Markov Random Field (TS-MRF) models have been recently proposed to provide a hierarchical multiscale description of images. Based on such a model, the unsupervised image segmentation is carried out by means of a sequence of nested class splits, where each class is modeled as a local binary MRF. We propose here a new TS-MRF unsupervised segmentation technique which improves upon the original algorithm by selecting a better tree structure and eliminating spurious classes. Such results are obtained by using the Mean-Shift procedure to estimate the number of pdf modes at each node (thus allowing for a non-binary tree), and to obtain a more reliable initial clustering for subsequent MRF optimization. To this end, we devise a new reliable and fast clustering algorithm based on the Mean-Shift technique. Experimental results prove the potential of the proposed method.

47 - A new computationally efficient stochastic approach for building reconstruction from satellite data. F. Lafarge and M. Durupt and X. Descombes and J. Zerubia and M. Pierrot-Deseilligny. In XXI ISPRS Congress, Part A, Beijing, China, July 2008. Note : Copyright ISPRS Keywords : 3D reconstruction, Building, satellite data, stochastic approach, jump process. @INPROCEEDINGS{lafarge_isprs08, author = {Lafarge, F. and Durupt, M. and Descombes, X. and Zerubia, J. and Pierrot-Deseilligny, M.}, title = {A new computationally efficient stochastic approach for building reconstruction from satellite data}, year = {2008}, month = {July}, booktitle = {XXI ISPRS Congress, Part A}, address = {Beijing, China}, note = {Copyright ISPRS}, url = {http://www.isprs.org/proceedings/XXXVII/congress/3_pdf/40.pdf}, keyword = {3D reconstruction, Building, satellite data, stochastic approach, jump process} }

48 - Indexing of mid-resolution satellite images with structural attributes. A. Bhattacharya and M. Roux and H. Maitre and I. H. Jermyn and X. Descombes and J. Zerubia. In The International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Beijing, China, July 2008. Keywords : Landscape, Segmentation, Features, Extraction, Classification, Modelling. @INPROCEEDINGS{Bhattacharya08, author = {Bhattacharya, A. and Roux, M. and Maitre, H. and Jermyn, I. H. and Descombes, X. and Zerubia, J.}, title = {Indexing of mid-resolution satellite images with structural attributes}, year = {2008}, month = {July}, booktitle = {The International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing}, address = {Beijing, China}, pdf = {http://www-sop.inria.fr/members/Ian.Jermyn/publications/Bhattacharya08isprs.pdf}, keyword = {Landscape, Segmentation, Features, Extraction, Classification, Modelling} } Abstract : Indexing and retrieval of satellite images relies on the extraction of appropriate information from the data about the entity of interest (e.g. land cover type) and on the robustness of this extraction to nuisance variables. Entities in an image may be strongly correlated with each other and can therefore be used to characterize geographical environments on the Earth’s surface. The properties of road networks vary considerably from one geographical environment to another. The networks pertaining in a satellite image can therefore be used to classify and retrieve such environments. In the work presented in this paper we have defined 7 such classes. These classes can be categorized as follows: 2 urban classes consisting of “Urban USA” and “Urban Europe”; 3 rural classes consisting of “Villages”, “Mountains” and “Fields”; an “Airports” class and a “Common” class (this can be considered as a rejection class). These classes were then classified with the aid of geometrical and topological features computed from the road networks occurring in them. In our work we have used two extraction methods simultaneously on an image to extract the road networks pertaining in it. A set of 16 network features were computed from one extraction method and were categorized into 6 groups as follows: 6 measures of ‘density’, 4 measures of ‘curviness’, 2 measures of ‘homogeneity’, 1 measure of ‘length’, 2 measures of ‘distribution’ and 1 measure of ‘entropy’. Due to certain limitations of these extraction methods there was a relative failure of network extraction in certain urban regions con- taining narrow and dense road structures. This loss of information was circumvented by segmenting the urban regions and computing a second set of geometrical and topological features from them. A set of 4 urban region features were computed and were categorized into 3 groups as follows: 2 measures of ‘density’, 1 measure of ‘labels’ and 1 measure of ‘compactness’. The 500 images (each of size 512x512 pixels) forming our database were selected from SPOT5 scenes with 5m resolution. From each image a set of geometrical and topological features were computed from the road networks and urban regions. These features were then used to classify the pre-defined geographical classes. Feature selection was done to avoid the burden of feature dimensionality and increase the classification performance. A set of 20 features was selected from 36 features by Fisher Linear Discriminant (FLD) analysis which gave the least classification error with an one-vs-rest linear Support Vector Machine (SVM). The impact of spatial resolution and size of images on the feature set have been explored in this work. We took a closer look at the effect of spatial resolution and size of images on the discriminative power of the feature set to classify the images belonging to the pre-defined geographical classes. Tests were performed with feature selection by FLD and one-vs-rest linear SVM classification on a database with images of 10m resolution. Another test was performed with feature selection by FLD and one-vs-rest linear SVM classification on a database with 5m resolution images (each of size 256x256 pixels). With the above mentioned approaches, we developed a novel method to classify large satellite images acquired by SPOT5 satellite (5m resolution) with patches of images each of size 512x512 pixels extracted from them. There has been a large amount of work dedicated to the classification of large satellite images at pixel level rather than considering image patches of different sizes. Classification of image patches of different sizes from a large satellite image is a novel idea in the sense that the patches considered contain significant coverage of a particular type of geographical environment. Road networks and urban region features were computed from these image patches extracted from the large image. A one-vs-rest Gaussian kernel SVM classification method was used to classify this large image. The classification results show that the image patches were labeled with the class having the maximum geographical coverage of the area associated in the large image. The large image was mapped into a “region matrix”, where each element of the matrix corresponds to a geographical class. This is a ‘hard’ classification and no inference can be drawn about the classification confidence. In certain cases, this produces some anomalies, as a single patch may contain two or more different geographical coverages. In order to have an estimate of these partial coverages, the output of the SVM was mapped into probabilities. These probability measures were then studied to have a closer look at the classification accuracies. The results confirm that our method is able to classify a large image into various geographical classes with a mean error of less than 10%. Future studies can use operators to detect not only man-made structures like roads and urban areas, but also natural entities like rivers, forests, etc. In this work we have restricted ourselves to a single resolution, but our methodology can be adapted to consider images of higher resolutions from QuickBird and the future Pleiade satellite. At a better resolution it may be possible to extract different structures like buildings, gardens, cross-roads, etc. This in turn will allow us to incorporate more classes to appropriately classify any geographical environment. At an image resolution of 1m, we may imagine to have sub-classes of an existing class, e.g., classes like urban Europe and urban USA can de divided into downtown, residential and industrial classes.

49 - Extraction of main and secondary roads in VHR images using a higher-order phase field model. T. Peng and I. H. Jermyn and V. Prinet and J. Zerubia. In Proc. XXI ISPRS Congress, Part A, pages 215-22, Beijing, China, July 2008. Keywords : Road network, Urban areas, Satellite images, Segmentation, Modelling, Variational methods. Copyright : ISPRS @INPROCEEDINGS{Peng08a, author = {Peng, T. and Jermyn, I. H. and Prinet, V. and Zerubia, J.}, title = {Extraction of main and secondary roads in VHR images using a higher-order phase field model}, year = {2008}, month = {July}, booktitle = {Proc. XXI ISPRS Congress, Part A}, pages = {215-22}, address = {Beijing, China}, pdf = {http://www.isprs.org/proceedings/XXXVII/congress/3_pdf/33.pdf}, keyword = {Road network, Urban areas, Satellite images, Segmentation, Modelling, Variational methods} } Abstract : This paper addresses the issue of extracting main and secondary road networks in dense urban areas from very high resolution (VHR, ~0.61m) satellite images. The difficulty with secondary roads lies in the low discriminative power of the grey-level distributions of road regions and the background, and the greater effect of occlusions and other noise on narrower roads. To tackle this problem, we use a previously developed higher-order active contour (HOAC) phase field model and augment it with an additional non-linear nonlocal term. The additional term allows separate control of road width and road curvature; thus more precise prior knowledge can be incorporated, and better road prolongation can be achieved for the same width. Promising results on QuickBird panchromatic images at reduced resolutions and comparisons with other models demonstrate the role and the efficiency of our new model.

50 - Building reconstruction from a single DEM. F. Lafarge and X. Descombes and J. Zerubia and M. Pierrot-Deseilligny. In Proc. IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Anchorage, Alaska, U.S., June 2008. @INPROCEEDINGS{lafarge_cvpr08, author = {Lafarge, F. and Descombes, X. and Zerubia, J. and Pierrot-Deseilligny, M.}, title = {Building reconstruction from a single DEM}, year = {2008}, month = {June}, booktitle = {Proc. IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, address = {Anchorage, Alaska, U.S.}, pdf = {ftp://ftp-sop.inria.fr/ariana/Articles/2008_lafarge_cvpr08.pdf}, keyword = {} }

51 - Blind deconvolution for diffraction-limited fluorescence microscopy. P. Pankajakshan and B. Zhang and L. Blanc-Féraud and Z. Kam and J.C. Olivo-Marin and J. Zerubia. In Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), pages 740-743, Paris, France, May 2008. Keywords : Confocal microscopy, Blind Deconvolution, point spread function, Richardson-Lucy algorithm, total variation regularization. Copyright : This work has been submitted to the IEEE for possible publication. Copyright may be transferred without notice, after which this version may no longer be accessible. @INPROCEEDINGS{ppankajakshan08a, author = {Pankajakshan, P. and Zhang, B. and Blanc-Féraud, L. and Kam, Z. and Olivo-Marin, J.C. and Zerubia, J.}, title = {Blind deconvolution for diffraction-limited fluorescence microscopy}, year = {2008}, month = {May}, booktitle = {Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI)}, pages = {740-743}, address = {Paris, France}, pdf = {ftp://ftp-sop.inria.fr/ariana/Articles/2008_ppankajakshan08a.pdf}, keyword = {Confocal microscopy, Blind Deconvolution, point spread function, Richardson-Lucy algorithm, total variation regularization} } Abstract : Optical Sections of biological samples obtained from a fluorescence Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopes (CLSM) are often degraded by out-of-focus blur and photon counting noise. Such physical constraints on the observation are a result of the diffraction-limited nature of the optical system, and the reduced amount of light detected by the photomultiplier respectively. Hence, the image stacks can benefit from postprocessing restoration methods based on deconvolution. The parameters of the acquisition system’s Point Spread Function (PSF) may vary during the course of experimentation, and so they have to be estimated directly from the observation data. We describe here an alternate minimization algorithm for the simultaneous blind estimation of the specimen 3D distribution of fluorescent sources and the PSF. Experimental results on real data show that the algorithm provides very good deconvolution results in comparison to theoretical microscope PSF models.

52 - Automatic 3D modeling of urban scenes from satellite images. F. Lafarge and X. Descombes and J. Zerubia and M. Pierrot-Deseilligny. In Proc. SPACEAPPLI, Toulouse, France, April 2008. @INPROCEEDINGS{lafarge_spaceappli08, author = {Lafarge, F. and Descombes, X. and Zerubia, J. and Pierrot-Deseilligny, M.}, title = {Automatic 3D modeling of urban scenes from satellite images}, year = {2008}, month = {April}, booktitle = {Proc. SPACEAPPLI}, address = {Toulouse, France}, url = {http://www.toulousespaceshow.eu/tss08/spaceappli08/index.htm}, keyword = {} }

53 - AUTOMATIC FLAMINGO DETECTION USING A MULTIPLE BIRTH AND DEATH PROCESS. S. Descamps and X. Descombes and A. Béchet and J. Zerubia. In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Las Vegas, USA, March 2008. Copyright : copyright IEEE 2008 @INPROCEEDINGS{descamps08, author = {Descamps, S. and Descombes, X. and Béchet, A. and Zerubia, J.}, title = {AUTOMATIC FLAMINGO DETECTION USING A MULTIPLE BIRTH AND DEATH PROCESS}, year = {2008}, month = {March}, booktitle = {Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)}, address = {Las Vegas, USA}, pdf = {ftp://ftp-sop.inria.fr/ariana/Articles/2008_descamps08.pdf}, keyword = {} }

54 - SATELLITE IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION FROM AN IRREGULAR SAMPLING. E. Bughin and L. Blanc-Féraud and J. Zerubia. In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Las Vegas, USA, March 2008. Keywords : Irregular sampling, Variational methods, Fourier analysis, Satellite imaging. Copyright : @INPROCEEDINGS{Bughin08, author = {Bughin, E. and Blanc-Féraud, L. and Zerubia, J.}, title = {SATELLITE IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION FROM AN IRREGULAR SAMPLING}, year = {2008}, month = {March}, booktitle = {Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)}, address = {Las Vegas, USA}, url = {http://hal.inria.fr/docs/00/27/89/19/PDF/bughinICASSP08.pdf}, keyword = {Irregular sampling, Variational methods, Fourier analysis, Satellite imaging} }

55 - Mixing Geometric and Radiometric Features for Change Classification. A. Fournier and X. Descombes and J. Zerubia. In Proc. SPIE Symposium on Electronic Imaging, San Jose, USA, January 2008. Keywords : Change detection, directional Statistics, polygonal approximation, Classification. Copyright : Copyright 2008 SPIE and IS&T. This paper was published in the proceedings of IS&T/SPIE 20th Annual Symposium on Electronic Imaging and is made available as an electronic reprint (preprint) with permission of SPIE and IS&T. One print or electronic copy may be made for personal use only. Systematic or multiple reproduction, distribution to multiple locations via electronic or other means, duplication of any material in this paper for a fee or for commercial purposes, or modification of the content of the paper are prohibited. @INPROCEEDINGS{fournier_spie08, author = {Fournier, A. and Descombes, X. and Zerubia, J.}, title = {Mixing Geometric and Radiometric Features for Change Classification}, year = {2008}, month = {January}, booktitle = {Proc. SPIE Symposium on Electronic Imaging}, address = {San Jose, USA}, url = {http://hal.inria.fr/inria-00269853/fr/}, keyword = {Change detection, directional Statistics, polygonal approximation, Classification} } Abstract : Most basic change detection algorithms use a pixel-based approach. Whereas such approach is quite well defined for monitoring important area changes (such as urban growth monitoring) in low resolution images, an object based approach seems more relevant when the change detection is specifically aimed toward targets (such as small buildings and vehicles). In this paper, we present an approach that mixes radiometric and geometric features to qualify the changed zones. The goal is to establish bounds (appearance, disappearance, substitution ...) between the detected changes and the underlying objects. We proceed by first clustering the change map (containing each pixel bitemporal radiosity) in different classes using the entropy-kmeans algorithm. Assuming that most man-made objects have a polygonal shape, a polygonal approximation algorithm is then used in order to characterize the resulting zone shapes. Hence allowing us to refine the primary rough classification, by integrating the polygon orientations in the state space. Tests are currently conducted on Quickbird data.

56 - Diagramme de phase d'une énergie de type contours actifs d'ordre supérieur : le cas d'une barre longue. A. El Ghoul and I. H. Jermyn and J. Zerubia. In 16ème congrès francophone AFRIF-AFIA Reconnaissance des Formes et Intelligence Artificielle (RFIA), Amiens, France, January 2008. Keywords : Diagramme de phase, Contours actifs d'ordre supérieur, Shape, geometric prior, Télédétection. @INPROCEEDINGS{ElGhoul08, author = {El Ghoul, A. and Jermyn, I. H. and Zerubia, J.}, title = {Diagramme de phase d'une énergie de type contours actifs d'ordre supérieur : le cas d'une barre longue}, year = {2008}, month = {January}, booktitle = {16ème congrès francophone AFRIF-AFIA Reconnaissance des Formes et Intelligence Artificielle (RFIA)}, address = {Amiens, France}, url = {https://hal.inria.fr/inria-00319575}, pdf = {http://hal.inria.fr/docs/00/31/95/75/PDF/rfia08aymenelghoul.pdf}, keyword = {Diagramme de phase, Contours actifs d'ordre supérieur, Shape, geometric prior, Télédétection} } Résumé : Dans cet article, nous présentons l’analyse de stabilité du modèle des “contours actifs d’ordre supérieur” (CAOS), pour l’extraction des réseaux routiers présents dans des images de télédétection. Le modèle énergétique des CAOS à minimiser présente des comportements différents en fonction des valeurs des paramètres du modèle. Il s’est avéré que deux structures géométriques sont favorisées par ce modèle : des structures linéiques et circulaires. Nous nous intéressons ici à la détermination du diagramme de phase, qui définit les gammes des valeurs des paramètres du modèle des CAOS, permettant d’obtenir des structures linéiques. Abstract : In this paper, we present a stability analysis of a “higher-order active contour” (HOAC) model for road network extraction from remotely sensed images. The HOAC energy presents several different behaviours depending on the model parameter values. Two types of geometric structure are favoured, namely line networks and circles. In this work, we derive the phase diagram giving the parameter ranges of the HOAC model that allow stable linear structures.

57 - Forest Fire Detection based on Gaussian field analysis. F. Lafarge and X. Descombes and J. Zerubia. In Proc. European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Poznan, Poland, September 2007. Note : Copyright EURASIP Keywords : Gaussian Field, DT-caracteristic, Forest fires. @INPROCEEDINGS{lafarge_eusipco07, author = {Lafarge, F. and Descombes, X. and Zerubia, J.}, title = {Forest Fire Detection based on Gaussian field analysis}, year = {2007}, month = {September}, booktitle = {Proc. European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO)}, address = {Poznan, Poland}, note = {Copyright EURASIP}, pdf = {ftp://ftp-sop.inria.fr/ariana/Articles/2007_lafarge_eusipco07.pdf}, keyword = {Gaussian Field, DT-caracteristic, Forest fires} }

58 - 3D city modeling based on Hidden Markov Model. F. Lafarge and X. Descombes and J. Zerubia and M. Pierrot-Deseilligny. In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), San Antonio, U.S., September 2007. Note : Copyright IEEE Keywords : 3D reconstruction, Building, Hidden Markov Model. @INPROCEEDINGS{lafarge_icip07, author = {Lafarge, F. and Descombes, X. and Zerubia, J. and Pierrot-Deseilligny, M.}, title = {3D city modeling based on Hidden Markov Model}, year = {2007}, month = {September}, booktitle = {Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)}, address = {San Antonio, U.S.}, note = {Copyright IEEE}, url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4379207}, keyword = {3D reconstruction, Building, Hidden Markov Model} }

59 - 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. @INPROCEEDINGS{Peng07a, author = {Peng, T. and Jermyn, I. H. and Prinet, V. and Zerubia, J. and Hu, B.}, title = {A Phase Field Model Incorporating Generic and Specific Prior Knowledge Applied to Road Network Extraction from VHR Satellite Images}, year = {2007}, month = {September}, booktitle = {Proc. British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC)}, address = {Warwick, UK}, pdf = {ftp://ftp-sop.inria.fr/ariana/Articles/2007_Peng07a.pdf}, keyword = {Road network, Very high resolution, Higher-order, Active contour, Shape, Prior} } 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.

60 - Apprentissage non supervisé des SVM par un algorithme des K-moyennes entropique pour la détection de zones brûlées. O. Zammit and X. Descombes and J. Zerubia. In Proc. GRETSI Symposium on Signal and Image Processing, Troyes, France, September 2007. Keywords : Satellite images, Forest fires, Burnt areas, Classification, Support Vector Machines, Learning base. @INPROCEEDINGS{zammit_gretsi_07, author = {Zammit, O. and Descombes, X. and Zerubia, J.}, title = {Apprentissage non supervisé des SVM par un algorithme des K-moyennes entropique pour la détection de zones brûlées}, year = {2007}, month = {September}, booktitle = {Proc. GRETSI Symposium on Signal and Image Processing}, address = {Troyes, France}, pdf = {ftp://ftp-sop.inria.fr/ariana/Articles/2007_zammit_gretsi_07.pdf}, keyword = {Satellite images, Forest fires, Burnt areas, Classification, Support Vector Machines, Learning base} }

61 - A Multi-Layer MRF Model for Object-Motion Detection in Unregistered Airborne Image-Pairs. C. Benedek and T. Szirányi and Z. Kato and J. Zerubia. In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Vol. 6, pages 141--144, San Antonio, Texas, USA, September 2007. Keywords : Change detection, Aerial images, Camera motion, MRF. Copyright : Copyright IEEE @INPROCEEDINGS{benedek_ICIP07, author = {Benedek, C. and Szirányi, T. and Kato, Z. and Zerubia, J.}, title = {A Multi-Layer MRF Model for Object-Motion Detection in Unregistered Airborne Image-Pairs}, year = {2007}, month = {September}, booktitle = {Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)}, volume = {6}, pages = {141--144}, address = {San Antonio, Texas, USA}, url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/search/srchabstract.jsp?arnumber=4379541&isnumber=4379494&punumber=4378863&k2dockey=4379541@ieeecnfs&query=%28benedek+%3Cin%3E+metadata%29+%3Cand%3E+%284379494+%3Cin%3E+isnumber%29&pos=0}, pdf = {http://web.eee.sztaki.hu/~bcsaba/Publications/Pdf/benedek_icip2007.pdf}, keyword = {Change detection, Aerial images, Camera motion, MRF} } Abstract : In this paper, we give a probabilistic model for automatic change detection on airborne images taken with moving cameras. To ensure robustness, we adopt an unsupervised coarse matching instead of a precise image registration. The challenge of the proposed model is to eliminate the registration errors, noise and the parallax artifacts caused by the static objects having considerable height (buildings, trees, walls etc.) from the difference image. We describe the background membership of a given image point through two different features, and introduce a novel three-layerMarkov Random Field (MRF) model to ensure connected homogenous regions in the segmented image.

62 - Parametric blind deconvolution for confocal laser scanning microscopy. P. Pankajakshan and B. Zhang and L. Blanc-Féraud and Z. Kam and J.C. Olivo-Marin and J. Zerubia. In Proc. 29th International Conference of IEEE EMBS (EMBC-07), pages 6531-6534, August 2007. Keywords : Confocal microscopy, Blind Deconvolution, Poisson noise, Total variation, EM algorithm, Bayesian estimation. Copyright : ©2007 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or to reuse any copyrighted component of this work in other works must be obtained from the IEEE. @INPROCEEDINGS{Pankajakshan07a, author = {Pankajakshan, P. and Zhang, B. and Blanc-Féraud, L. and Kam, Z. and Olivo-Marin, J.C. and Zerubia, J.}, title = {Parametric blind deconvolution for confocal laser scanning microscopy}, year = {2007}, month = {August}, booktitle = {Proc. 29th International Conference of IEEE EMBS (EMBC-07)}, pages = {6531-6534}, pdf = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/4352184/4352185/04353856.pdf?tp=&isnumber=&arnumber=4353856}, keyword = {Confocal microscopy, Blind Deconvolution, Poisson noise, Total variation, EM algorithm, Bayesian estimation} } Abstract : In this paper, we propose a method for the iterative restoration of fluorescence Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopic (CLSM) images and parametric estimation of the acquisition system’s Point Spread Function (PSF). The CLSM is an optical fluorescence microscope that scans a specimen in 3D and uses a pinhole to reject most of the out-of-focus light. However, the quality of the images suffers from two basic physical limitations. The diffraction-limited nature of the optical system, and the reduced amount of light detected by the photomultiplier cause blur and photon counting noise respectively. These images can hence benefit from post-processing restoration methods based on deconvolution. An efficient method for parametric blind image deconvolution involves the simultaneous estimation of the specimen 3D distribution of fluorescent sources and the microscope PSF. By using a model for the microscope image acquisition physical process, we reduce the number of free parameters describing the PSF and introduce constraints. The parameters of the PSF may vary during the course of experimentation, and so they have to be estimated directly from the observed data. A priori model of the specimen is further applied to stabilize the alternate minimization algorithm and to converge to the solutions.

63 - Assessment of different classification algorithms for burnt land discrimination. O. Zammit and X. Descombes and J. Zerubia. In Proc. IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), pages 3000-3003, Barcelone, Spain, July 2007. Keywords : Satellite images, Burnt areas, Support Vector Machines, Forest fires, Classification. Copyright : IEEE @INPROCEEDINGS{zammit_igarss_07, author = {Zammit, O. and Descombes, X. and Zerubia, J.}, title = {Assessment of different classification algorithms for burnt land discrimination}, year = {2007}, month = {July}, booktitle = {Proc. IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)}, pages = {3000-3003}, address = {Barcelone, Spain}, url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4423476}, keyword = {Satellite images, Burnt areas, Support Vector Machines, Forest fires, Classification} }

64 - A Hierarchical Texture Model for Unsupervised Segmentation of Remotely Sensed Images. G. Scarpa and M. Haindl and J. Zerubia. In Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis, Vol. 4522/2007, pages 303-312, series LNCS 4522, Ed. Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, Aalborg, Denmark, June 2007. @INPROCEEDINGS{scarpa_scia_07, author = {Scarpa, G. and Haindl, M. and Zerubia, J.}, title = {A Hierarchical Texture Model for Unsupervised Segmentation of Remotely Sensed Images}, year = {2007}, month = {June}, booktitle = {Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis}, volume = {4522/2007}, pages = {303-312}, series = {LNCS 4522}, editor = {Springer Berlin / Heidelberg}, address = {Aalborg, Denmark}, url = {http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-540-73040-8_31}, keyword = {} }

65 - Indexing Satellite Images with Features Computed from Man-Made Structures on the Earth’s Surface. A. Bhattacharya and M. Roux and H. Maitre and I. H. Jermyn and X. Descombes and J. Zerubia. In Proc. International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing, Bordeaux, France, June 2007. Keywords : Indexation, Road network, Semantic, Retrieval, Feature statistics. @INPROCEEDINGS{Bhattacharya07a, author = {Bhattacharya, A. and Roux, M. and Maitre, H. and Jermyn, I. H. and Descombes, X. and Zerubia, J.}, title = {Indexing Satellite Images with Features Computed from Man-Made Structures on the Earth’s Surface}, year = {2007}, month = {June}, booktitle = {Proc. International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing}, address = {Bordeaux, France}, pdf = {ftp://ftp-sop.inria.fr/ariana/Articles/2007_Bhattacharya07a.pdf}, keyword = {Indexation, Road network, Semantic, Retrieval, Feature statistics} } Abstract : Indexing and retrieval from remote sensing image databases relies on the extraction of appropriate information from the data about the entity of interest (e.g. land cover type) and on the robustness of this extraction to nuisance variables. Other entities in an image may be strongly correlated with the entity of interest and their properties can therefore be used to characterize this entity. The road network contained in an image is one example. The properties of road networks vary considerably from one geographical environment to another, and they can therefore be used to classify and retrieve such environments. In this paper, we define several such environments, and classify them with the aid of geometrical and topological features computed from the road networks occurring in them. The relative failure of network extraction methods in certain types of urban area obliges us to segment such areas and to add a second set of geometrical and topological features computed from the segmentations. To validate the approach, feature selection and SVM linear kernel classification are performed on the feature set arising from a diverse image database.

66 - A Hierarchical finite-state model for texture segmentation. G. Scarpa and M. Haindl and J. Zerubia. In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Vol. 1, pages 1209-1212, Honolulu, HI (USA), April 2007. @INPROCEEDINGS{scarpa_icassp_07, author = {Scarpa, G. and Haindl, M. and Zerubia, J.}, title = {A Hierarchical finite-state model for texture segmentation}, year = {2007}, month = {April}, booktitle = {Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)}, volume = {1}, pages = {1209-1212}, address = {Honolulu, HI (USA)}, url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4217303}, keyword = {} }

67 - Urban road extraction from VHR images using a multiscale image model and a phase field model of network geometry. T. Peng and I. H. Jermyn and V. Prinet and J. Zerubia. In Proc. Urban, Paris, France, April 2007. Keywords : Road network, Very high resolution, Multiscale, Higher-order, Active contour, Shape. @INPROCEEDINGS{Peng07_urban, author = {Peng, T. and Jermyn, I. H. and Prinet, V. and Zerubia, J.}, title = {Urban road extraction from VHR images using a multiscale image model and a phase field model of network geometry}, year = {2007}, month = {April}, booktitle = {Proc. Urban}, address = {Paris, France}, pdf = {http://www-sop.inria.fr/members/Ian.Jermyn/publications/Peng07urban.pdf}, keyword = {Road network, Very high resolution, Multiscale, Higher-order, Active contour, Shape} } Abstract : This paper addresses the problem of automatically extracting the main road network in a dense urban area from a very high resolution optical satellite image using a variational approach. The model energy has two parts: a phase field higherorder active contour energy that describes our prior knowledge of road network geometry, i.e. that it is composed of elongated structures with roughly parallel borders that meet at junctions; and a multi-scale statistical image model describing the image we expect to see given a road network. By minimizing the model energy, an estimate of the road network is obtained. Promising results on 0.6m QuickBird Panchromatic images are presented, and future improvements to the models are outlined.

68 - Circular object segmentation using higher-order active contours. P. Horvath and I. H. Jermyn and Z. Kato and J. Zerubia. In In Proc. Conference of the Hungarian Association for Image Analysis and Pattern Recognition (KEPAF'07), Debrecen, Hungary, January 2007. Note : In Hungarian Keywords : Higher-order, Tree Crown Extraction, Shape. @INPROCEEDINGS{Horvath07a, author = {Horvath, P. and Jermyn, I. H. and Kato, Z. and Zerubia, J.}, title = {Circular object segmentation using higher-order active contours}, year = {2007}, month = {January}, booktitle = {In Proc. Conference of the Hungarian Association for Image Analysis and Pattern Recognition (KEPAF'07)}, address = {Debrecen, Hungary}, note = {In Hungarian}, pdf = {ftp://ftp-sop.inria.fr/ariana/Articles/2007_Horvath07a.pdf}, keyword = {Higher-order, Tree Crown Extraction, Shape} }

69 - Wavelet-based restoration methods: application to 3D confocal microscopy images. C. Chaux and L. Blanc-Féraud and J. Zerubia. In Proc. SPIE Conference on Wavelets, 2007. Keywords : Restoration, Deconvolution, 3D images, Confocal microscopy, Poisson noise, Wavelets. Copyright : Copyright 2007 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers. This paper was published in Proc. SPIE Conference on Wavelets and is made available as an electronic reprint (preprint) with permission of SPIE. One print or electronic copy may be made for personal use only. Systematic or multiple reproduction, distribution to multiple locations via electronic or other means, duplication of any material in this paper for a fee or for commercial purposes, or modification of the content of the paper are prohibited. @INPROCEEDINGS{chaux2007, author = {Chaux, C. and Blanc-Féraud, L. and Zerubia, J.}, title = {Wavelet-based restoration methods: application to 3D confocal microscopy images}, year = {2007}, booktitle = {Proc. SPIE Conference on Wavelets}, pdf = {ftp://ftp-sop.inria.fr/ariana/Articles/2007_chaux2007.pdf}, keyword = {Restoration, Deconvolution, 3D images, Confocal microscopy, Poisson noise, Wavelets} }

70 - Vers une détection et une classification non-supervisées des changements inter-images. A. Fournier and X. Descombes and J. Zerubia. In Proc. Traitement et Analyse de l'Information - Méthodes et Applications (TAIMA), 2007. Keywords : Markov Random Fields, Registration, Change detection, Clustering. @INPROCEEDINGS{fournier-taima-07, author = {Fournier, A. and Descombes, X. and Zerubia, J.}, title = {Vers une détection et une classification non-supervisées des changements inter-images}, year = {2007}, booktitle = {Proc. Traitement et Analyse de l'Information - Méthodes et Applications (TAIMA)}, pdf = {ftp://ftp-sop.inria.fr/ariana/Articles/2007_fournier-taima-07.pdf}, keyword = {Markov Random Fields, Registration, Change detection, Clustering} }

71 - Tree Species Classification Using Radiometry, Texture and Shape Based Features. M. S. Kulikova and M. Mani and A. Srivastava and X. Descombes and J. Zerubia. In Proc. European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), 2007. Keywords : shape based features, SVM, tree classification. @INPROCEEDINGS{Kulikova07, author = {Kulikova, M. S. and Mani, M. and Srivastava, A. and Descombes, X. and Zerubia, J.}, title = {Tree Species Classification Using Radiometry, Texture and Shape Based Features}, year = {2007}, booktitle = {Proc. European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO)}, pdf = {http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/46/55/05/PDF/Kulikova_EUSIPCO2007.pdf}, keyword = {shape based features, SVM, tree classification} } Abstract : We consider the problem of tree species classification from high resolution aerial images based on radiometry, texture and a shape modeling. We use the notion of shape space proposed by Klassen et al., which provides a shape description invariant to translation, rotation and scaling. The shape features are extracted within a geodesic distance in the shape space. We then perform a classification using a SVM approach. We are able to show that the shape descriptors improve the classification performance relative to a classifier based on radiometric and textural descriptors alone. We obtain these results using high resolution Colour InfraRed (CIR) aerial images provided by the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. The image viewpoint is close to the nadir, i.e. the tree crowns are seen from above.

72 - An improved 'gas of circles' higher-order active contour model and its application to tree crown extraction. P. Horvath and I. H. Jermyn and Z. Kato and J. Zerubia. In Proc. Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing (ICVGIP), Madurai, India, December 2006. Keywords : Tree Crown Extraction, Aerial images, Higher-order, Active contour, Gas of circles, Shape. @INPROCEEDINGS{Horvath06_icvgip, author = {Horvath, P. and Jermyn, I. H. and Kato, Z. and Zerubia, J.}, title = {An improved 'gas of circles' higher-order active contour model and its application to tree crown extraction}, year = {2006}, month = {December}, booktitle = {Proc. Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing (ICVGIP)}, address = {Madurai, India}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11949619_14}, pdf = {ftp://ftp-sop.inria.fr/ariana/Articles/2006_Horvath06_icvgip.pdf}, keyword = {Tree Crown Extraction, Aerial images, Higher-order, Active contour, Gas of circles, Shape} } Abstract : A central task in image processing is to find the region in the image corresponding to an entity. In a number of problems, the region takes the form of a collection of circles, eg tree crowns in remote sensing imagery; cells in biological and medical imagery. In~citeHorvath06b, a model of such regions, the `gas of circles' model, was developed based on higher-order active contours, a recently developed framework for the inclusion of prior knowledge in active contour energies. However, the model suffers from a defect. In~citeHorvath06b, the model parameters were adjusted so that the circles were local energy minima. Gradient descent can become stuck in these minima, producing phantom circles even with no supporting data. We solve this problem by calculating, via a Taylor expansion of the energy, parameter values that make circles into energy inflection points rather than minima. As a bonus, the constraint halves the number of model parameters, and severely constrains one of the two that remain, a major advantage for an energy-based model. We use the model for tree crown extraction from aerial images. Experiments show that despite the lack of parametric freedom, the new model performs better than the old, and much better than a classical active contour.

73 - Burnt area mapping using Support Vector Machines. O. Zammit and X. Descombes and J. Zerubia. In Proc. International Conference on Forest Fire Research, Figueira da Foz, Portugal, November 2006. Keywords : Satellite images, Forest fires, Burnt areas, Support Vector Machines. @INPROCEEDINGS{zammit_icffr_06, author = {Zammit, O. and Descombes, X. and Zerubia, J.}, title = {Burnt area mapping using Support Vector Machines}, year = {2006}, month = {November}, booktitle = {Proc. International Conference on Forest Fire Research}, address = {Figueira da Foz, Portugal}, pdf = {ftp://ftp-sop.inria.fr/ariana/Articles/2006_zammit_icffr_06.pdf}, keyword = {Satellite images, Forest fires, Burnt areas, Support Vector Machines} }

74 - An Automatic Building Reconstruction Method : A Structural Approach Using High Resolution Images. F. Lafarge and X. Descombes and J. Zerubia and M. Pierrot-Deseilligny. In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Atlanta, October 2006. Keywords : 3D reconstruction, Buildings, RJMCMC, Structural approach, Satellite images. Copyright : IEEE @INPROCEEDINGS{lafarge_icip06, author = {Lafarge, F. and Descombes, X. and Zerubia, J. and Pierrot-Deseilligny, M.}, title = {An Automatic Building Reconstruction Method : A Structural Approach Using High Resolution Images}, year = {2006}, month = {October}, booktitle = {Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)}, address = {Atlanta}, pdf = {ftp://ftp-sop.inria.fr/ariana/Articles/2006_lafarge_icip06.pdf}, keyword = {3D reconstruction, Buildings, RJMCMC, Structural approach, Satellite images} }

75 - Computing statistics from a graph representation of road networks in satellite images for indexing and retrieval. A. Bhattacharya and I. H. Jermyn and X. Descombes and J. Zerubia. In Proc. compImage, Coimbra, Portugal, October 2006. Keywords : Road network, Indexation, Semantic, Retrieval, Feature statistics. @INPROCEEDINGS{bhatta_compimage06, author = {Bhattacharya, A. and Jermyn, I. H. and Descombes, X. and Zerubia, J.}, title = {Computing statistics from a graph representation of road networks in satellite images for indexing and retrieval}, year = {2006}, month = {October}, booktitle = {Proc. compImage}, address = {Coimbra, Portugal}, pdf = {ftp://ftp-sop.inria.fr/ariana/Articles/2006_bhatta_compimage06.pdf}, keyword = {Road network, Indexation, Semantic, Retrieval, Feature statistics} } Abstract : Retrieval from remote sensing image archives relies on the extraction of pertinent information from the data about the entity of interest (e.g. land cover type), and on the robustness of this extraction to nuisance variables (e.g. illumination). Most image-based characterizations are not invariant to such variables. However, other semantic entities in the image may be strongly correlated with the entity of interest and their properties can therefore be used to characterize this entity. Road networks are one example: their properties vary considerably, for example, from urban to rural areas. This paper takes the first steps towards classification (and hence retrieval) based on this idea. We study the dependence of a number of network features on the class of the image ('urban' or 'rural'). The chosen features include measures of the network density, connectedness, and `curviness'. The feature distributions of the two classes are well separated in feature space, thus providing a basis for retrieval. Classification using kernel k-means confirms this conclusion.

76 - Nonlinear models for the statistics of adaptive wavelet packet coefficients of texture. J. Aubray and I. H. Jermyn and J. Zerubia. In Proc. European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Florence, Italy, September 2006. Keywords : Texture, Adaptive, Wavelet packet, Nonlinear, Bimodal, Statistics. @INPROCEEDINGS{aubray_eusipco06, author = {Aubray, J. and Jermyn, I. H. and Zerubia, J.}, title = {Nonlinear models for the statistics of adaptive wavelet packet coefficients of texture}, year = {2006}, month = {September}, booktitle = {Proc. European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO)}, address = {Florence, Italy}, pdf = {ftp://ftp-sop.inria.fr/ariana/Articles/2006_aubray_eusipco06.pdf}, keyword = {Texture, Adaptive, Wavelet packet, Nonlinear, Bimodal, Statistics} } Abstract : Probabilistic adaptive wavelet packet models of texture pro- vide new insight into texture structure and statistics by focus- ing the analysis on significant structure in frequency space. In very adapted subbands, they have revealed new bimodal statistics, corresponding to the structure inherent to a texture, and strong dependencies between such bimodal sub- bands, related to phase coherence in a texture. Existing models can capture the former but not the latter. As a first step to- wards modelling the joint statistics, and in order to simplify earlier approaches, we introduce a new parametric family of models capable of modelling both bimodal and unimodal subbands, and of being generalized to capture the joint statistics. We show how to compute MAP estimates for the adaptive basis and model parameters, and apply the models to Brodatz textures to illustrate their performance.

77 - 2D and 3D Vegetation Resource Parameters Assessment using Marked Point Processes. G. Perrin and X. Descombes and J. Zerubia. In Proc. International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Hong-Kong, August 2006. Keywords : Data energy, Object extraction, Tree Crown Extraction, Stochastic geometry, Marked point process. @INPROCEEDINGS{perrin_06_c, author = {Perrin, G. and Descombes, X. and Zerubia, J.}, title = {2D and 3D Vegetation Resource Parameters Assessment using Marked Point Processes}, year = {2006}, month = {August}, booktitle = {Proc. International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR)}, address = {Hong-Kong}, pdf = {ftp://ftp-sop.inria.fr/ariana/Articles/2006_perrin_06_c.pdf}, keyword = {Data energy, Object extraction, Tree Crown Extraction, Stochastic geometry, Marked point process} } Abstract : High resolution aerial and satellite images of forests have a key role to play in natural resource management. As they enable to study forests at the scale of trees, it is now possible to get a more accurate evaluation of the forest resources, from which can be deduced information of biodiversity and ecological sustainability. In that prospect, automatic algorithms are needed to give a further exploitation of the data and to assist human operators. In this paper, we present a stochastic geometry approach to extract 2D and 3D parameters of the trees, by modelling the stands as some realizations of a marked point process of ellipses or ellipsoids, whose points are the positions of the trees and marks their geometric features. This approach gives also the number of stems, their position, and their size. It is an energy minimization problem, where the energy embeds a regularization term (prior density), which introduces some interactions between the objects, and a data term, which links the objects to the features to be extracted. Results are shown on aerial images provided by the French National Forest Inventory (IFN).

78 - A Higher-Order Active Contour Model for Tree Detection. P. Horvath and I. H. Jermyn and Z. Kato and J. Zerubia. In Proc. International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Hong Kong, August 2006. Keywords : Active contour, Gas of circles, Higher-order, Shape, Prior, Tree Crown Extraction. @INPROCEEDINGS{horvath_icpr06, author = {Horvath, P. and Jermyn, I. H. and Kato, Z. and Zerubia, J.}, title = {A Higher-Order Active Contour Model for Tree Detection}, year = {2006}, month = {August}, booktitle = {Proc. International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR)}, address = {Hong Kong}, pdf = {ftp://ftp-sop.inria.fr/ariana/Articles/2006_horvath_icpr06.pdf}, keyword = {Active contour, Gas of circles, Higher-order, Shape, Prior, Tree Crown Extraction} } Abstract : We present a model of a ‘gas of circles’, the ensemble of regions in the image domain consisting of an unknown number of circles with approximately fixed radius and short range repulsive interactions, and apply it to the extraction of tree crowns from aerial images. The method uses the re- cently introduced ‘higher order active contours’ (HOACs), which incorporate long-range interactions between contour points, and thereby include prior geometric information without using a template shape. This makes them ideal when looking for multiple instances of an entity in an image. We study an existing HOAC model for networks, and show via a stability calculation that circles stable to perturbations are possible for constrained parameter sets. Combining this prior energy with a data term, we show results on aerial imagery that demonstrate the effectiveness of the method and the need for prior geometric knowledge. The model has many other potential applications.

79 - Automatic 3D Building Reconstruction from DEMs: an Application to PLEIADES Simulations. F. Lafarge and X. Descombes and J. Zerubia and M. Pierrot-Deseilligny. In Proc. International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Commission I Symposium (ISPRS), Marne La Vallee, France, July 2006. Keywords : 3D reconstruction, Digital Elevation Model, Building extraction, Dense urban areas, PLEIADES simulations. @INPROCEEDINGS{lafarge_isprs06, author = {Lafarge, F. and Descombes, X. and Zerubia, J. and Pierrot-Deseilligny, M.}, title = {Automatic 3D Building Reconstruction from DEMs: an Application to PLEIADES Simulations}, year = {2006}, month = {July}, booktitle = {Proc. International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Commission I Symposium (ISPRS)}, address = {Marne La Vallee, France}, pdf = {ftp://ftp-sop.inria.fr/ariana/Articles/2006_lafarge_isprs06.pdf}, keyword = {3D reconstruction, Digital Elevation Model, Building extraction, Dense urban areas, PLEIADES simulations} }

80 - A comparative study of three methods for identifying individual tree crowns in aerial images covering different types of forests. M. Eriksson and G. Perrin and X. Descombes and J. Zerubia. In Proc. International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS), Marne La Vallee, France, July 2006. Keywords : Region Growing, Marked point process, Markov Fields, Object extraction, Tree Crown Extraction. @INPROCEEDINGS{eriksson06a, author = {Eriksson, M. and Perrin, G. and Descombes, X. and Zerubia, J.}, title = {A comparative study of three methods for identifying individual tree crowns in aerial images covering different types of forests}, year = {2006}, month = {July}, booktitle = {Proc. International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS)}, address = {Marne La Vallee, France}, pdf = {ftp://ftp-sop.inria.fr/ariana/Articles/2006_eriksson06a.pdf}, keyword = {Region Growing, Marked point process, Markov Fields, Object extraction, Tree Crown Extraction} } Abstract : Most of today's silviculture methods has the goal to optimise the outcome of the forest in stem volume when it is cut.‭ ‬It might also be relevant to save parts of the forest,‭ ‬for instance,‭ ‬to protect a habitat.‭ ‬In order to get a good survey of the forest,‭ ‬remote sensed images are often used.‭ ‬These images are most often manually interpreted in combination with field measurements in order to estimate the forest parameters that are of importance in the decision how to optimally maintain the forest.‭ ‬Among these parameters the most common are stem number,‭ ‬stem volume,‭ ‬and tree species.‭ ‬Interpretation of images are often labour and time consuming.‭ ‬Thus,‭ ‬automatically developed methods for interpretation can lower the work load and speed up the interpretation time.‭ The interpretation is often done using images captured from a far distance from the ground in order to capture as large area as possible.‭ ‬However,‭ ‬this lower the accuracy of the estimates since it must be done stand wise.‭ ‬Knowledge of where each individual trees in the forest is located together with its size will increase accuracy.‭ ‬It makes it also possible to plan the cutting in detail.‭ ‬With this knowledge in mind,‭ ‬research about finding automatically methods for finding individual tree crowns in aerial images has been a subject for researchers the last decades.‭ Today's methods are not capable to alone handle all kind of forests.‭ ‬Therefore,‭ ‬comparative studies of different segmentation methods with different types of forests are of importance in order to clarify how much a method is reliable at a certain type of forest.‭ ‬This knowledge can,‭ ‬for instance,‭ ‬be used to build up an expert system which are supposed to be able to find individual tree crowns in any kind of forests.‭ ‬The comparison is done using images covering different types of forests.‭ ‬The types of forests that are included in the study ranges from isolated tree crown where the ground is clearly visible between the crowns to dense forest which is naturally regenerated via planted forest. In this study we compare three existing segmentation methods for extracting individual tree crowns from aerial images.‭ ‬The first two methods are probabilistic methods which minimises some energy function while the third is a region growing algorithm.‭ ‬The first probabilistic method is based on a Markov Random Field modelling.‭ ‬We define a prior Markov model to segment the image into three classes‭ (‬background,‭ ‬vegetation and tree centres‭)‬.‭ ‬The prior model embed a circular shape model of the tree crown with a‭ ‬random radius.‭ ‬The data term allows to well position the tree centres onto the image and to describe the tree shape as fluctuations around the circular template.‭ ‬Besides,‭ ‬some long range interactions models the relations between the trees locations,‭ ‬such as some periodicity in case of plantations.‭ The second probabilistic method consists in modeling the trees in the forestry images as random configurations of ellipses or ellipsoids,‭ ‬whose points are the positions of the stems and marks their geometric features.‭ ‬The density of this process embeds a regularization term‭ (‬prior density‭)‬,‭ ‬which introduces some interactions between the objects,‭ ‬and a data term,‭ ‬which links the objects to the features to be extracted.‭ ‬We estimate the best configuration of an unknown number of objects,‭ ‬from which‭ ‬2D and‭ ‬3D vegetation resource parameters can be extracted.‭ ‬To sample this marked point process,‭ ‬we use Monte Carlo dynamics,‭ ‬while the optimization is performed via a Simulated Annealing algorithm,‭ ‬which results in a fully automatic approach.‭ ‬This approach works well on plantations,‭ ‬where there are high spatial relations between the trees,‭ ‬and on isolated trees where‭ ‬3D parameters can be extracted,‭ ‬but some difficulties remain in dense areas.‭ The third method,‭ ‬the region growing algorithm,‭ ‬relies as all region growing methods on good seed points,‭ ‬i.e.‭ ‬in this case approximate locations of the tree crowns.‭ ‬From the seed points the segments are grown according to a grey level value of the neighbouring pixels.‭ ‬The larger the value is the sooner it is connected to the neighbouring segment.‭ ‬The segments stops to grow when all pixels belongs to a segment.‭ ‬This method,‭ ‬contrary the others,‭ ‬will have as a result,‭ ‬segments that have captured the actual shape of the tree crown if the forest is not too sparse.‭ ‬If the forest is too sparse such that the ground is visible,‭ ‬there are problems of finding the seed points.‭ ‬In the cases when the forest is sparse,‭ ‬there are difficulties to separate the tree crowns from the ground.‭ ‬Even if the seed points would be located only at the tree crowns the result will contain a lot of errors since all pixels most belong to a segment,‭ ‬i.e.‭ ‬even the ground pixels must be connected to a segment in this case.‭

81 - An Automatic 3D City Model : a Bayesian Approach using Satellite Images. F. Lafarge and X. Descombes and J. Zerubia and M. Pierrot-Deseilligny. In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Toulouse, France, May 2006. Note : Copyright IEEE Keywords : 3D reconstruction, Buildings, MCMC, Digital Elevation Model (DEM). @INPROCEEDINGS{florenticassp06, author = {Lafarge, F. and Descombes, X. and Zerubia, J. and Pierrot-Deseilligny, M.}, title = {An Automatic 3D City Model : a Bayesian Approach using Satellite Images}, year = {2006}, month = {May}, booktitle = {Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)}, address = {Toulouse, France}, note = {Copyright IEEE}, pdf = {ftp://ftp-sop.inria.fr/ariana/Articles/2006_florenticassp06.pdf}, keyword = {3D reconstruction, Buildings, MCMC, Digital Elevation Model (DEM)} }

82 - Forest Resource Assessment using Stochastic Geometry. G. Perrin and X. Descombes and J. Zerubia and J.G. Boureau. In Proc. International Precision Forestry Symposium, March 2006. Keywords : Tree Crown Extraction, Object extraction, Stochastic geometry, RJMCMC, Data energy. @INPROCEEDINGS{perrin_06_b, author = {Perrin, G. and Descombes, X. and Zerubia, J. and Boureau, J.G.}, title = {Forest Resource Assessment using Stochastic Geometry}, year = {2006}, month = {March}, booktitle = {Proc. International Precision Forestry Symposium}, pdf = {ftp://ftp-sop.inria.fr/ariana/Articles/perrin_ipfs06.pdf}, keyword = {Tree Crown Extraction, Object extraction, Stochastic geometry, RJMCMC, Data energy} } Abstract : Aerial and satellite imagery has a key role to play in natural resource management, especially in forestry application. The submetric resolution of the data enables to study forests at the scale of trees, and to get a more accurate assessment of the resources such as the number of stems or the forest cover. To develop automatic tools in order to help the inventories in their work and to bring more knowledge about the stands is also nowadays of important economical and environmental concerns. In this paper, we aim at extracting tree crowns from high resolution aerial Color Infrared images (CIR) of forests using marked point processes. Our approach consists in modelling the trees in the forestry images as random configurations of ellipses, whose points are the positions of the stems and marks their geometric features. The density of this process embeds a regularization term (prior density), which introduces some interactions between the objects, and a data term, which links the objects to the features to be extracted. Our goal is to find the best configuration of an unknown number of objects, i.e. the configuration that maximizes this density. To sample this marked point process, we use Monte Carlo dynamics while the optimization is performed via a Simulated Annealing algorithm, which results in a fully automatic approach. We present different models for the data term in order to cope with different kinds of stands : plantations, isolated trees and mixed stands. Results are shown on aerial CIR images provided by the French Forest Inventory (IFN)

83 - A study of Gaussian approximations of fluorescence microscopy PSF models. B. Zhang and J. Zerubia and J.C. Olivo-Marin. In Three-Dimensional and Multidimensional Microscopy: Image Acquisition and Processing XIII of Proc. SPIE, in press, Vol. 6090, San Jose, USA, January 2006. Copyright : SPIE @INPROCEEDINGS{zerubia_spie06, author = {Zhang, B. and Zerubia, J. and Olivo-Marin, J.C.}, title = {A study of Gaussian approximations of fluorescence microscopy PSF models}, year = {2006}, month = {January}, booktitle = {Three-Dimensional and Multidimensional Microscopy: Image Acquisition and Processing XIII of Proc. SPIE, in press}, volume = {6090}, address = {San Jose, USA}, keyword = {} }

84 - Evaluation des Ressources Forestières à l'aide de Processus Ponctuels Marqués. G. Perrin and X. Descombes and J. Zerubia. In Proc. Reconnaissance des Formes et Intelligence Artificielle (RFIA), Tours, France, January 2006. Keywords : Tree Crown Extraction, Stochastic geometry, Marked point process, Object extraction. @INPROCEEDINGS{perrin_06_a, author = {Perrin, G. and Descombes, X. and Zerubia, J.}, title = {Evaluation des Ressources Forestières à l'aide de Processus Ponctuels Marqués}, year = {2006}, month = {January}, booktitle = {Proc. Reconnaissance des Formes et Intelligence Artificielle (RFIA)}, address = {Tours, France}, pdf = {ftp://ftp-sop.inria.fr/ariana/Articles/perrin_rfia06.pdf}, keyword = {Tree Crown Extraction, Stochastic geometry, Marked point process, Object extraction} } Résumé : Les images aériennes et satellitaires jouent un role de plus en plus important dans le domaine de la gestion des ressources naturelles, et en particulier des forêts. Les organismes chargés d'en faire l'inventaire, comme l'Inventaire Forestier National (IFN) en France, s'appuient en effet sur ces images pour observer les différentes espèces d'arbres d'une zone boisée, avant de se rendre sur le terrain pour une étude plus poussée. La résolution submétrique des données permet, en outre, d'entrevoir une étude plus fine, à savoir un comptage à l'arbre près et une classification automatique des houppiers (ensemble des branches et du feuillage d'un arbre). Cette évaluation précise des ressources forestières n'est actuellement pas disponible. Aussi, le développement d'outils automatiques, chargés d'aider les gestionnaires du paysage dans leur travail en leur apportant une connaissance des ressources à l'échelle de l'arbre, se révèle-t-il être d'un intérêt grandissant.L'objectif de notre travail est donc d'extraire des houppiers à partir d'images aériennes de forêts à très haute résolution. Notre approche consiste à modéliser les peuplements forestiers par un processus ponctuel marqué d'ellipses, dont les points représentent les positions des arbres et les marques leurs caractéristiques géométriques. La densité de ce processus comporte une composante de régularisation, dite a priori, qui introduit des interactions entre les objets du processus, ainsi qu'une composante d'attache aux données, afin que les objets du processus se positionnent sur les houppiers que l'on souhaite extraire. Il s'agit de trouver la configuration d'objets, en nombre inconnu a priori, qui maximise cette densité. La simulation de tels processus fait appel aux algorithmes de type Monte Carlo par Chaîne de Markov (MCMC) à sauts réversibles, l'optimisation étant réalisée à l'aide d'un recuit simulé.Nous présentons ici un nouveau modèle d'attache aux données. Contrairement à nos précédents modèles testés sur des plantations, ce modèle n'est plus bayésien puisque le terme d'attache aux données est désormais calculé au niveau des objets et non de l'image. Ceci nous permet de travailler sur des images plus générales, avec des densités d'arbres plus variables. Des résultats obtenus sur des images fournies par l'IFN valident ce modèle. Abstract : Aerial and satellite imagery has a key role to play in natural resources management, especially in forestry application. Indeed, forest inventories, such as the French National Inventory (IFN), refer to these images to analyse the different tree species in a stand, before sending a team on the ground to obtain some more advanced knowledge. Moreover, the submetric resolution of the data enables to study forests at the scale of trees, and also to get a more accurate evaluation of the resources such as the number of stems. It would be also of important economical and environmental concerns to develop automatic tools to analyze and monitor forests.We aim at extracting tree crowns from high resolution aerial images of forests. Our approach consists in modelling the forestry images as realizations of a marked point process of ellipses, whose points are the positions of the trees and marks their geometric features. The density of this process embeds a regularization term (prior density), which introduces some interactions between the objects, and a data term, which links the objects to the features to be extracted. Our goal is to find the best configuration of an unknown number of objects, i.e. the configuration that maximizes this density. To sample the marked point process, we use Monte Carlo dynamics (Reversible Jump Markov Chain Monte Carlo), while the optimization is performed via a simulated annealing algorithm.We present here a new model for the data term. Contrary to our previous models tested on plantations images, this model is not Bayesian anymore : the data term is calculated for each object and not for the whole image. This enables us to work on more general images, with variable tree crown densities. Example results are shown on aerial images provided by the French Forest Inventory (IFN).

85 - Galaxy filament detection using the Quality candy model. P. Gernez and X. Descombes and J. Zerubia and E. Slezak and A. Bijaoui. In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2006. Keywords : Marked point process, Quality Candy model, Galaxy Filaments. @INPROCEEDINGS{gernez06, author = {Gernez, P. and Descombes, X. and Zerubia, J. and Slezak, E. and Bijaoui, A.}, title = {Galaxy filament detection using the Quality candy model}, year = {2006}, booktitle = {Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)}, pdf = {ftp://ftp-sop.inria.fr/ariana/Articles/2006_gernez06.pdf}, keyword = {Marked point process, Quality Candy model, Galaxy Filaments} }

86 - Point process of segments and rectangles for building extraction from DEM. M. Ortner and X. Descombes and J. Zerubia. In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2006. Keywords : Stochastic geometry, Buildings. @INPROCEEDINGS{ortner06, author = {Ortner, M. and Descombes, X. and Zerubia, J.}, title = {Point process of segments and rectangles for building extraction from DEM}, year = {2006}, booktitle = {Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)}, pdf = {ftp://ftp-sop.inria.fr/ariana/Articles/2006_ortner06.pdf}, keyword = {Stochastic geometry, Buildings} }

87 - Adaptive Simulated Annealing for Energy Minimization Problem in a Marked Point Process Application. G. Perrin and X. Descombes and J. Zerubia. In Proc. Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (EMMCVPR), St Augustine, Florida, USA, November 2005. Keywords : Simulated Annealing, Marked point process, Stochastic geometry, MAP estimation, RJMCMC. Copyright : Springer Verlag @INPROCEEDINGS{perrin_emmcvpr05, author = {Perrin, G. and Descombes, X. and Zerubia, J.}, title = {Adaptive Simulated Annealing for Energy Minimization Problem in a Marked Point Process Application}, year = {2005}, month = {November}, booktitle = {Proc. Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (EMMCVPR)}, address = {St Augustine, Florida, USA}, pdf = {ftp://ftp-sop.inria.fr/ariana/Articles/perrin_emmcvpr.pdf}, ps = {ftp://ftp-sop.inria.fr/ariana/Articles/perrin_emmcvpr.ps.gz}, keyword = {Simulated Annealing, Marked point process, Stochastic geometry, MAP estimation, RJMCMC} } Abstract : We use marked point processes to detect an unknown number of trees from high resolution aerial images. This is in fact an energy minimization problem, where the energy contains a prior term which takes into account the geometrical properties of the objects, and a data term to match these objects to the image. This stochastic process is simulated via a Reversible Jump Markov Chain Monte Carlo procedure, which embeds a Simulated Annealing scheme to extract the best configuration of objects. We compare here different cooling schedules of the Simulated Annealing algorithm which could provide some good minimization in a short time. We also study some adaptive proposition kernels.

88 - Phase field models and higher-order active contours. M. Rochery and I. H. Jermyn and J. Zerubia. In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Beijing, China, October 2005. Keywords : Active contour, Higher-order, Shape, Line networks, Road network, Phase Field. @INPROCEEDINGS{rochery_iccv05, author = {Rochery, M. and Jermyn, I. H. and Zerubia, J.}, title = {Phase field models and higher-order active contours}, year = {2005}, month = {October}, booktitle = {Proc. IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)}, address = {Beijing, China}, pdf = {ftp://ftp-sop.inria.fr/ariana/Articles/rochery_iccv05.pdf}, keyword = {Active contour, Higher-order, Shape, Line networks, Road network, Phase Field} } Abstract : The representation and modelling of regions is an important topic in computer vision. In this paper, we represent a region via a level set of a `phase field' function. The function is not constrained, eg to be a distance function; nevertheless, phase field energies equivalent to classical active contour energies can be defined. They represent an advantageous alternative to other methods: a linear representation space; ease of implementation (a PDE with no reinitialization); neutral initialization; greater topological freedom. We extend the basic phase field model with terms that reproduce `higher-order active contour' energies, a powerful way of including prior geometric knowledge in the active contour framework via nonlocal interactions between contour points. In addition to the above advantages, the phase field greatly simplifies the analysis and implementation of the higher-order terms. We define a phase field model that favours regions composed of thin arms meeting at junctions, combine this with image terms, and apply the model to the extraction of line networks from remote sensing images.

89 - Détection de feux de forêt à partir d'images satellitaires IRT par analyse statistique d'évènements rares. F. Lafarge and X. Descombes and J. Zerubia and S. Mathieu-Marni. In Proc. GRETSI Symposium on Signal and Image Processing, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique, September 2005. Keywords : Rare event, Forest fires, Gaussian Field. @INPROCEEDINGS{lafarge_gretsi05, author = {Lafarge, F. and Descombes, X. and Zerubia, J. and Mathieu-Marni, S.}, title = {Détection de feux de forêt à partir d'images satellitaires IRT par analyse statistique d'évènements rares}, year = {2005}, month = {September}, booktitle = {Proc. GRETSI Symposium on Signal and Image Processing}, address = {Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique}, pdf = {ftp://ftp-sop.inria.fr/ariana/Articles/2005_lafarge_gretsi05.pdf}, keyword = {Rare event, Forest fires, Gaussian Field} }

90 - New Higher-order Active Contour Energies for Network Extraction. M. Rochery and I. H. Jermyn and J. Zerubia. In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Genoa, Italy, September 2005. Keywords : Gap closure, Shape, Prior, Higher-order, Active contour. @INPROCEEDINGS{rochery_icip05, author = {Rochery, M. and Jermyn, I. H. and Zerubia, J.}, title = {New Higher-order Active Contour Energies for Network Extraction}, year = {2005}, month = {September}, booktitle = {Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)}, address = {Genoa, Italy}, pdf = {ftp://ftp-sop.inria.fr/ariana/Articles/rochery_icip05.pdf}, keyword = {Gap closure, Shape, Prior, Higher-order, Active contour} } Abstract : Using the framework of higher-order active contours, we present a new quadratic em continuation energy for the extraction of line networks (e.g. road, hydrographic, vascular) in the presence of occlusions. Occlusions create gaps in the data that frequently translate to gaps in the extracted network. The new energy penalizes earby opposing extremities of the network, and thus favours the closure of the gaps created by occlusions. Nearby opposing extremities are identified using a sophisticated interaction between pairs of points on the contour. This new model allows the extraction of fully connected networks, even though occlusions violate common assumptions about the homogeneity of the interior, and high contrast with the exterior, of the network. We present experimental results on real aerial images that demonstrate the effectiveness of the new model for network extraction tasks.

91 - Extraction of hydrographic networks from satellite images using a hierarchical model within a stochastic geometry framework. C. Lacoste and X. Descombes and J. Zerubia and N. Baghdadi. In Proc. European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Antalya, Turkey, September 2005. @INPROCEEDINGS{lacoste_eusipco05, author = {Lacoste, C. and Descombes, X. and Zerubia, J. and Baghdadi, N.}, title = {Extraction of hydrographic networks from satellite images using a hierarchical model within a stochastic geometry framework}, year = {2005}, month = {September}, booktitle = {Proc. European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO)}, address = {Antalya, Turkey}, url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=7078007}, keyword = {} }

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