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Point Processes for Unsupervised Line Network Extraction in Remote Sensing
October 2005 (vol. 27 no. 10)
pp. 1568-1579
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Caroline Lacoste, Xavier Descombes, Josiane Zerubia, "Point Processes for Unsupervised Line Network Extraction in Remote Sensing," IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 27, no. 10, pp. 1568-1579, October, 2005.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/TPAMI.2005.206,
author = {Caroline Lacoste and Xavier Descombes and Josiane Zerubia},
title = {Point Processes for Unsupervised Line Network Extraction in Remote Sensing},
journal ={IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence},
volume = {27},
number = {10},
issn = {0162-8828},
year = {2005},
pages = {1568-1579},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TPAMI.2005.206},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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TY - JOUR
JO - IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
TI - Point Processes for Unsupervised Line Network Extraction in Remote Sensing
IS - 10
SN - 0162-8828
SP1568
EP1579
EPD - 1568-1579
A1 - Caroline Lacoste,
A1 - Xavier Descombes,
A1 - Josiane Zerubia,
PY - 2005
KW - Index Terms- Stochastic processes
KW - Monte Carlo
KW - simulated annealing
KW - edge and feature detection
KW - remote sensing.
VL - 27
JA - IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
ER -
 
This paper addresses the problem of unsupervised extraction of line networks (for example, road or hydrographic networks) from remotely sensed images. We model the target line network by an object process, where the objects correspond to interacting line segments. The prior model, called "Quality Candy,” is designed to exploit as fully as possible the topological properties of the network under consideration, while the radiometric properties of the network are modeled using a data term based on statistical tests. Two techniques are used to compute this term: one is more accurate, the other more efficient. A calibration technique is used to choose the model parameters. Optimization is done via simulated annealing using a Reversible Jump Markov Chain Monte Carlo (RJMCMC) algorithm. We accelerate convergence of the algorithm by using appropriate proposal kernels. The results obtained on satellite and aerial images are quantitatively evaluated with respect to manual extractions. A comparison with the results obtained using a previous model, called the "Candy” model, shows the interest of adding quality coefficients with respect to interactions in the prior density. The relevance of using an offline computation of the data potential is shown, in particular, when a proposal kernel based on this computation is added in the RJMCMC algorithm.

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Index Terms:
Index Terms- Stochastic processes, Monte Carlo, simulated annealing, edge and feature detection, remote sensing.
Citation:
Caroline Lacoste, Xavier Descombes, Josiane Zerubia, "Point Processes for Unsupervised Line Network Extraction in Remote Sensing," IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 27, no. 10, pp. 1568-1579, Oct. 2005, doi:10.1109/TPAMI.2005.206
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