Oracle bone inscriptions (OBIs) are invaluable materials for recovering the economic and social forms for Shang Dynasty, one of the most ancient dynasties in China. It is very important to get the original OBIs from scanned images of oracle bone rubbings. To this end, researchers have to employ a very time-consuming method that they follow the inscriptions by handwritten tools, pixel by pixel and image by image. In this paper, an image segmentation method was proposed to overcome this limitation based on fully convolutional networks (FCN). In order to speed up training as well as boost the segmentation performance, a simple FCN with only convolutional layers was designed, where batch normalization was incorporated. The proposed method was tested on a real OBI image set (320 samples). Experimental results show that the proposed method is effective enough to get the OBIs from scanned images of oracle bone rubbings.
Classification is a crucial task in various remote sensing applications. While edge is one of the most important characteristics in the high-resolution remote-sensing images, which helps much for the improvement of classification accuracy. Therefore, in this paper, we propose an unsupervised classification method by incorporating edge information into a clustering procedure. Firstly, a consistency coefficient function, which indicates the similarity between edges obtained by clustering and by the edge detection methods, is defined to guarantee more accurate edges. Sequentially, a clustering procedure based on HMRFFCM is designed, in which the edge constraints are exploited by using the edge consistency. Experiments on synthetic and real remote sensing images have shown that the proposed methods can get more accurate classification results.
Automatic road extraction from High Resolution Remote Sensing Image is a challenging problem. In this paper we present a new approach for road automatically extraction which is based on topological derivative and mathematical morphology. This approach for road extraction can be divided into three main steps: using topological derivative for image segmentation, using mathematical morphology for road network identification and filtering. The experimental results show that this approach can effectively extract roads from high-resolution remote sensing image.
It is very important for the government to build an accurate national basic cultivated land database. In this work, farmland parcels extraction is one of the basic steps. However, during the past years, people had to spend much time on determining an area is a farmland parcel or not, since they were bounded to understand remote sensing images only from the mere visual interpretation. In order to overcome this problem, in this study, a method was proposed to extract farmland parcels by means of image classification. In the proposed method, farmland areas and ridge areas of the classification map are semantically processed independently and the results are fused together to form the final results of farmland parcels. Experiments on high spatial remote sensing images have shown the effectiveness of the proposed method.
To overcome the problem of extracting line segment from an image, a method of line segment detection was proposed based on the graph search algorithm. After obtaining the edge detection result of the image, the candidate straight line segments are obtained in four directions. For the candidate straight line segments, their adjacency relationships are depicted by a graph model, based on which the depth-first search algorithm is employed to determine how many adjacent line segments need to be merged. Finally we use the least squares method to fit the detected straight lines. The comparative experimental results verify that the proposed algorithm has achieved better results than the line segment detector (LSD).
It is difficult and boring for people to artificially extract farmland parcels from high resolution remote sensing images. Therefore, automatic methods are in the urgent need to release image interpreters from such a work as well as achieve accurate results. In the past years, although many researchers have made attempts to solve this problem by using different techniques and also produced some good results, they still cannot meet the demand of practical applications. In this paper, a farmland extraction method is proposed based on a new technique of two-stage image classification. The first stage aims at producing a map of farmland area by using the supervised iterative conditional mode (ICM), where a novel mixture posterior is proposed based on the tree-structured interpretation of certain complex landscapes, e.g., farmland and building area, and the Markov random field model (MRF) is also used to make use of spatial information between neighboring pixels. The second stage extracts the farmland parcels by using the Meanshift algorithm (MS) based on the hybrid of the original image and the texture image produced by the local binary pattern (LBP) method. We applied our method to a piece of aerial image in the urban area of Taizhou, China. The results show that the proposed method has an ability to produce more accurate results than the MS method.
In the field of remote-sensed image segmentation, it is very important to obtain semantic results. However, in high resolution remote sensed images, different complex patterns always have components with the same spectrum, which makes it rather difficult to extract such patterns only through traditional clustering methods. In this paper, a novel multi-stage region-level clustering method is proposed to solve this problem. Firstly, the initial oversegmentation is obtained by using the Mean Shift algorithm, based on which a region adjacent graph (RAG) is built; Then, FCM is employed to get the spectral-based segmentation result; After that, the context clues for each region is calculated according to the label and size of neighboring regions, followed by the second FCM clustering on each set of regions with the same label to distinct regions with the same spectrum but belongs to different objects; Rearranging all of these clustering results to form the finial processing unit, this algorithm goes a step further to calculate more accurate context clues, and use the third FCM to obtain the final segmentation result. Experiments on the high resolution remote-sensed images have shown the superiority to the competitions.
It is rather difficult for low-level visual features to describe the need for specific applications of image understanding, which results in the inconsistency between vision information and application need. In this paper, a new model is proposed to reduce this gap by combining low-level visual features with semantic features. It uses the output of neural network as the semantic feature, which is accompanied with the priori label features to describe the image after making normalization. And then, the proposed method employs Potts to model the distribution of label priori, and utilizes the Bayesian network to classify images. Several experiments on both synthetic and real images have verified that this method can get more accurate segmentation.
An object-oriented, multiscale feature extraction approach is proposed for the land-cover classification of high spatial resolution images. The approach provides more discriminative features by considering the spatial context information from different segmentation levels. It consists of three successive substeps: segmentation by mean-shift algorithm, an iteratively merging process controlled by merging cost function and range-of-scale parameter, and feature extraction from linked multilevel image partitions. The mean-shift method is to get boundary-preserved and spectrally homogeneous over-segmentation regions. Then, a family of nested image partitions is constructed by a merging procedure. Meanwhile, every region of the finest scale is linked to image objects of its superlevels. Finally, every region in the finest scale is treated as a basic analysis unit, and the feature vectors are created by stacking statistics from the region and their superlevels. A support vector machine is used as a classifier and the method on two widely used high spatial resolution data sets over Pavia City, Italy, are evaluated. Compared with results reported in many papers, the result indicates superior accuracy.
We propose a context model for the fusion of the multiscale segmented images obtained by HMT model in wavelet
domain. It is produced based on fuzzy logical method, and it can integrate different kinds of contextual information in a
controllable way. Using such a context model, we can improve the accuracy of texture classification and boundary
localization.
In this paper, a new texture segmentation method based on MRMRF in wavelet domain is proposed. Unlike the common
used MRMRF, a variable weighting parameter is employed to combine the feature field and the labeling field, which
makes the two random fields dominant successively in the procedure of image segmentation and makes it possible to get a
more accurate segmentation result. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method is effective for texture
image segmentation.
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