AUTOMATIC MULTI-SCALE SEGMENTATION OF HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGES USING WATERSHEDS

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2013-07-26

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Sahin, Kerem
Ulusoy, İlkay

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An automatic segmentation algorithm that is based on watersheds and region merging type multi-scale segmentation (MSS) is proposed, which can be used as the initial step of an object-based classifier. First, the image is segmented using watershed segmentation. Then, primitive segments are merged to create meaningful objects by the proposed hybrid region merging algorithm. During these steps, an unsupervised segmentation accuracy metric is considered so that best performing parameters of the proposed algorithm are determined automatically. By this way, the proposed segmentation algorithm has become fully automatic. Experiments are done on images taken from Google Earth (R) software. Algorithm performance is computed using the ground truths of these images. Also, results for some other Google Earth (R) images are presented for qualitative performance assessment.

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Watershed Segmentation, Multi-Scale Segmentation, Automatic Segmentation, High Spatial Resolution Satellite Images, Object-Based Classification

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/47973

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https://doi.org/10.1109/igarss.2013.6723330

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Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Conference / Seminar

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K. Sahin and İ. Ulusoy, “AUTOMATIC MULTI-SCALE SEGMENTATION OF HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGES USING WATERSHEDS,” 2013, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/47973.