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MSER based shadow detection in high resolution remote sensing image

  • Hai Yan Yu*
  • , Jun Ge Sun
  • , Li Ning Liu
  • , Yun Hong Wang
  • , Yi Ding Wang
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Beihang University
  • North China University of Technology

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Abstract

The shadows are regarded as obstacles in remote sensing image analysis. With high-resolution remote sensing images developed, especially in urban area, shadow detection plays a much more important role in many applications. This paper presents a novel vision-based shadow detection method. The shadow areas are usually much darker than non-shadow areas visually in high resolution images. In our method, we extracted MSER (Maximally Stable Extremal Regions) in the image. Then these regions are classified into shadow-areas and non-shadow areas. Our method is experimentally verified by applying it to Quickbird images. The experimental result shows that it can effectively extract shadow areas in high resolution remote sensing images.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2010 International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics, ICMLC 2010
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages780-783
Number of pages4
ISBN (Print)9781424465262
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010

Publication series

Name2010 International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics, ICMLC 2010
Volume2

Keywords

  • MSER
  • Remote sensing
  • Shadow detection

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