Unsupervised segmentation of high-resolution satellite imagery using local spectral and texture features

QiuXiao Chen; JianCheng Luo; ChengHu Zhou

doi:10.1117/12.561328

2 November 2004 Unsupervised segmentation of high-resolution satellite imagery using local spectral and texture features

QiuXiao Chen, JianCheng Luo, ChengHu Zhou

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Proceedings Volume 5558, Applications of Digital Image Processing XXVII; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.561328
Event: Optical Science and Technology, the SPIE 49th Annual Meeting, 2004, Denver, Colorado, United States

Abstract

In many cases, segmentation approaches for remotely sensed imagery only deal with grey values, which makes them incompetent for segmenting high resolution imagery because texture features are more clearly displayed on them. On the other hand, texture segmentation approaches utilizing both spectral and texture features are, however, very complicated and time consuming which prevents their application. Therefore, to develop simple and effective segmentation approaches for high resolution satellite imagery is very important. In this article, a simple unsupervised segmentation approach for high resolution satellite imagery is proposed. First, wavelet decomposition is utilized to downsample each band of a multiband image. Then a gradient criterion to incorporate local spectral and texture features is utilized to produce a gradient feature image in which pixels with the high and low values correspond to region boundaries and region interiors respectively. Subsequently, a watershed segmentation approach is implemented based on the gradient feature image. Finally, by taking a strategy to minimize the overall heterogeneity increased within segments at each merging step, an improved merging process is performed. Experiments on Quickbird images show that the proposed method provides good segmentation results on high resolution satellite imagery.

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QiuXiao Chen, JianCheng Luo, and ChengHu Zhou "Unsupervised segmentation of high-resolution satellite imagery using local spectral and texture features", Proc. SPIE 5558, Applications of Digital Image Processing XXVII, (2 November 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.561328

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Image segmentation

Remote sensing

Earth observing sensors

Wavelets

Satellites

Image resolution

High resolution satellite images

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