Building detection from satellite images using shadow and color information

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2008

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Güdücü, Hasan Volkan

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A method for detecting buildings from satellite/aerial images is proposed in this study. The aim is to extract rectilinear buildings by using hypothesize first verify next manner. Hypothesis generation is accomplished by using edge detection and line generation stages. Hypothesis verification is carried out by using information obtained both from the color segmentation of HSV representation of the image and the shadow detection stages’ output. Satellite/aerial image is firstly filtered to sharpen the edges. Then, edges are extracted using Canny edge detection algorithm. These edges are the input for the Hough Transform stage which will produce line segments according to these extracted edges. Then, extracted line segments are used to generate building hypotheses. Verification of these hypotheses makes use of the outputs of the HSV color segmentation and shadow detection stages. In this study, color segmentation is processed on the HSV representation of the satellite/aerial image which is less sensitive to illumination. In order to perform the shadow detection, the basic information which is shadow areas have higher value of saturation component and lower value of value component in HSV color space is used and according to this information a mask is applied to the HSV representation of the image to produce shadow pixels. The proposed method is implemented as software written in MATLAB programming software. The approach was tested in several different areas. The results are encouraging.

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Electrical engineering., Computer science.

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12609920/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/18113

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis

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H. V. Güdücü, “Building detection from satellite images using shadow and color information,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2008.