{"title":"Fast extraction of dominant planes in MLS-data of urban areas","authors":"M. Gordon","doi":"10.1109/PRRS.2016.7867021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PRRS.2016.7867021","url":null,"abstract":"Many current LIDAR systems generate huge amounts of 3D points, therefore efficient and fast data processing is essential. In urban areas surfaces are often planar and plane patches are an efficient representation for localization purposes. Our approach thus stores the points in a voxel grid and afterwards extracts the dominant plane using RANSACbased plane fitting. Classical RANSAC-based plane extraction can result in improper planes, especially in the case of steps like curbsides. Different solutions have been presented, but they are computational demanding. We tackle this problem by extending the loss function of the standard RANSAC. This solves the problem in most cases and has nearly no impact on the runtime. We show the improvement using data of an urban environment, which were recorded by an MLS-system.","PeriodicalId":327270,"journal":{"name":"2016 9th IAPR Workshop on Pattern Recogniton in Remote Sensing (PRRS)","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125151708","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Nikonorov, M. Petrov, P. Yakimov, V. Blank, S. Karpeev, R. Skidanov, N. Kazanskiy
{"title":"Evaluating imaging quality of the offner hyperspectrometer","authors":"A. Nikonorov, M. Petrov, P. Yakimov, V. Blank, S. Karpeev, R. Skidanov, N. Kazanskiy","doi":"10.1109/PRRS.2016.7867020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PRRS.2016.7867020","url":null,"abstract":"To improve quality of hyperspectral remote sensing and spectral-topographic recognition, novel compact and efficient imaging spectrometer schemes are necessary. The paper considers an imaging spectrometer based on the Offner scheme. Due to its compact size, imaging spectrometer with Offner configuration is promising for use in small and atmospheric satellites. We describe the Offner optical scheme, data acquisition procedure and its comprehensive evaluation. The magnitude transfer function is estimated to evaluate imaging resolution. The spectral resolution was compared with the spectral resolution of a reference spectrometer. To deliver image quality acceptable for general purpose remote sensing, we identify the point-spread function and then apply non-blind deconvolution and denoising.","PeriodicalId":327270,"journal":{"name":"2016 9th IAPR Workshop on Pattern Recogniton in Remote Sensing (PRRS)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114300831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Pisani, K. Costa, Gustavo de Rosa, D. Pereira, J. Papa, J.M.R.S. Tavares
{"title":"River sediment yield classification using remote sensing imagery","authors":"R. Pisani, K. Costa, Gustavo de Rosa, D. Pereira, J. Papa, J.M.R.S. Tavares","doi":"10.1109/PRRS.2016.7867014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PRRS.2016.7867014","url":null,"abstract":"The monitoring of water quality is essencial to the mankind, since we strongly depend on such resource for living and working. The presence of sediments in rivers usually indicates changes in the land use, which can affect the quality of water and the lifetime of hydroelectric power plants. In countries like Brazil, where more than 70% of the energy comes from the water, it is crucial to keep monitoring the sediment yield in rivers and lakes. In this work, we evaluate some stateof- the-art supervised pattern recognition techniques to classify different levels of sediments in Brazilian rivers using satellite images, as well as we make available an annotated dataset composed of two images to foster the related research.","PeriodicalId":327270,"journal":{"name":"2016 9th IAPR Workshop on Pattern Recogniton in Remote Sensing (PRRS)","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121415729","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Segmentation of 3D outdoor scenes using hierarchical clustering structure and perceptual grouping laws","authors":"Yusheng Xu, S. Tuttas, Uwe Stilla","doi":"10.1109/PRRS.2016.7867013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PRRS.2016.7867013","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose a bottom-up point cloud segmentation method, which utilizes a hierarchical clustering structure combined with the perceptual grouping laws. Our method allows a learning-free and completely automatic but parametric process for segmenting point clouds of 3D outdoor scenes. The experiments using terrestrial laser scanning dataset have demonstrated that our proposed method can achieve good results, especially for complex scenes and nonplanar surfaces of objects. The quantitative comparison between our method and the region growing based method also confirms the effectiveness and efficiency of our method.","PeriodicalId":327270,"journal":{"name":"2016 9th IAPR Workshop on Pattern Recogniton in Remote Sensing (PRRS)","volume":"381 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123194503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Keiller Nogueira, J. A. dos Santos, Tamires Fornazari, Thiago Sanna Freire Silva, L. Morellato, R. D. S. Torres
{"title":"Towards vegetation species discrimination by using data-driven descriptors","authors":"Keiller Nogueira, J. A. dos Santos, Tamires Fornazari, Thiago Sanna Freire Silva, L. Morellato, R. D. S. Torres","doi":"10.1109/PRRS.2016.7867024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PRRS.2016.7867024","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract—In this paper, we analyse the use of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs or ConvNets) to discriminate vegetation species with few labelled samples. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work dedicated to the investigation of the use of deep features in such task. The experimental evaluation demonstrate that deep features significantly outperform wellknown feature extraction techniques. The achieved results also show that it is possible to learn and classify vegetation patterns even with few samples. This makes the use of our approach feasible for real-world mapping applications, where it is often difficult to obtain large training sets.","PeriodicalId":327270,"journal":{"name":"2016 9th IAPR Workshop on Pattern Recogniton in Remote Sensing (PRRS)","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131441256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A comprehensive study on object proposals methods for vehicle detection in aerial images","authors":"L. Sommer, T. Schuchert, J. Beyerer","doi":"10.1109/PRRS.2016.7867018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PRRS.2016.7867018","url":null,"abstract":"Detecting vehicles in aerial images is an important task in many applications such as traffic monitoring or screening of large areas. In general, vehicle detection in aerial images is performed by applying classifiers or a cascade of classifiers within a sliding window algorithm. However, detecting vehicles in a real-time system is limited by the huge number of windows to classify, especially in case of varying object scales, aspect ratios or object orientations. To reduce the high number of windows, we propose to apply so called object proposals methods. In recent years, several object proposals methods have been proposed for generating candidate windows in detection frameworks. However, aerial images differ considerably from datasets that are typically used for exploring such methods. To examine the applicability of such methods for aerial images, we evaluate 11 state-of-the-art object proposals methods on the publicly available DLR 3K Munich Vehicle Aerial Image Dataset. First, we manually modified the provided ground truth data to enable comparison to the generated object proposals. To compensate for the differing characteristics of the aerial images, we adapted seven methods by examining different parameter settings and extensions for each method separately. Finally, we demonstrate the potential of such methods for a detection framework for aerial images as significantly fewer candidate windows are generated in comparison to sliding window.","PeriodicalId":327270,"journal":{"name":"2016 9th IAPR Workshop on Pattern Recogniton in Remote Sensing (PRRS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124618568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Semisupervised classification of hyperspectral remote sensing images with spatial majority voting","authors":"Deok Han, Q. Du, N. Younan","doi":"10.1109/PRRS.2016.7867023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PRRS.2016.7867023","url":null,"abstract":"Semisupervised learning is very useful for hyperspectral image classification, when the number of labeled samples is insufficient. In this paper, a simple selftraining method with spatial majority filtering is proposed to find unlabeled samples that can assist classifier training. It is based on the assumption that an unlabeled pixel, after initial classification, that has the same class label of neighboring pixels, is reliable. This results in majority voting (MV) based algorithm. The performance can be improved if the spectral similarity between a center and surrounding pixels is considered in weighted majority voting (MWV). Experiments with four real datasets confirm their effectiveness in improving classification accuracy when the number of labeled samples is very limited.","PeriodicalId":327270,"journal":{"name":"2016 9th IAPR Workshop on Pattern Recogniton in Remote Sensing (PRRS)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131472209","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Discriminative archetypal self-taught learning for multispectral landcover classification","authors":"R. Roscher, Susanne Wenzel, B. Waske","doi":"10.1109/PRRS.2016.7867022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PRRS.2016.7867022","url":null,"abstract":"Self-taught learning (STL) has become a promising paradigm to exploit unlabeled data for classification. The most commonly used approach to self-taught learning is sparse representation, in which it is assumed that each sample can be represented by a weighted linear combination of elements of a unlabeled dictionary. This paper proposes discriminative archetypal self-taught learning for the application of landcover classification, in which unlabeled discriminative archetypal samples are selected to build a powerful dictionary. Our main contribution is to present an approach which utilizes reversible jump Markov chain Monte Carlo method to jointly determine the best set of archetypes and the number of elements to build the dictionary. Experiments are conducted using synthetic data, a multi-spectral Landsat 7 image of a study area in the Ukraine and the Zurich benchmark data set comprising 20 multispectral Quickbird images. Our results confirm that the proposed approach can learn discriminative features for classification and show better classification results compared to self-taught learning with the original feature representation and compared to randomly initialized archetypal dictionaries.","PeriodicalId":327270,"journal":{"name":"2016 9th IAPR Workshop on Pattern Recogniton in Remote Sensing (PRRS)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114053760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Point cloud registration by combining shape and intensity contexts","authors":"F. Wang, Y. Ye, Xiangyun Hu, J. Shan","doi":"10.1109/PRRS.2016.7867025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PRRS.2016.7867025","url":null,"abstract":"Co-registration of point clouds is critical when a scene is measured several times. We present a novel feature based solution, where features are described by combining local shape context and local intensity (or image) context. The Euclidean distances of such shape and intensity combined context descriptors are used to identify candidate correspondences, which are then used as input to the final (co-)registration with the random sample consensus method. The proposed approach is embedded in the concepts of point cloud pyramid and local shape context. The use of pyramid allows for robustness to noise, whereas the new feature descriptor takes into account both local geometry and reflectivity. Tests with three point clouds: one airborne, one terrestrial, and one image derived, demonstrate an automated and robust registration at a precision of 1.4-1.7 times the point spacing, which is sufficient for many applications and can lead to a convergence for further refinement.","PeriodicalId":327270,"journal":{"name":"2016 9th IAPR Workshop on Pattern Recogniton in Remote Sensing (PRRS)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127892376","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"4D change detection based on persistent scatterer interferometry","authors":"Chia-Hsiang Yang, B. Kenduiywo, U. Soergel","doi":"10.1109/PRRS.2016.7867016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PRRS.2016.7867016","url":null,"abstract":"We propose a novel time series analysis based on persistent scatterer interferometry (PSI) to detect spatial big changes (3D) such as construction along with their occurrence times (1D). PSI detects and analyses persistent scatterer (PS) points, which are characterized by strong and coherent signals throughout time-series SAR images and usually form building-shaped patterns in urban areas. Hence, potential PS points that disappear or emerge at a specific date because of big changes are discarded. We define such points as big change (BC) points. In our approach, pixels with high temporal coherences are first detected as PS points by a standard PSI processing. We introduce change index sequence for each pixel, which are computed from its temporal coherences in different image subsets defined by time-series break dates, to quantify its probabilities of being BC points at different dates. The change indices of the pixels are used to design an automatic thresholding method to extract BC points. Afterwards, the disappearing or emerging date of each BC point is detected from the break dates based on temporal variation in its change index sequence. The simulation test proves the overall, producer's and user's accuracies better than 99%. In the real data test, the patterns of the disappearing and emerging buildings are successfully recognized in Berlin, Germany along with the occurrence dates.","PeriodicalId":327270,"journal":{"name":"2016 9th IAPR Workshop on Pattern Recogniton in Remote Sensing (PRRS)","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128204817","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}