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M.Sc. - Building Detection in Aerial Images

Thesis (download)
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    • Preface
    • Abstract
    • Abstrakt (Danish)
    • Contents
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    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Task
      • 2.1 Image Material
      • 2.2 Scene Discussion
      • 2.3 Manual Classification
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    • 3. Previous work
      • 3.1 Active Research Groups
      • 3.2 Methods for Building Detection
      • 3.3 Advanced Road Detection
      • 3.4 Summary
    • 4. Framework
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    • 5. Scene Illumination Model
      • 5.1 Foundations
      • 5.2 Location of the Sun
      • 5.3 Solar Radiation Spectrum
      • 5.4 Solar Intensity Distribution
      • 5.5 Applications
      • 5.6 Summary
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    • 6. Pixel Classification
      • 6.1 Classification Methods
      • 6.2 Bayesian Classification
      • 6.3 CART
      • 6.4 K-means clustering
      • 6.5 Results
      • 6.6 Summary
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    • 7. Shadows
      • 7.1 Shadow Detection
      • 7.2 Shadow Removal
      • 7.3 Roof Ridge Detection
      • 7.4 Summary
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    • 8. Texture Analysis
      • 8.1 Grey Level Cooccurrence Matrices
      • 8.2 Fractal Dimension
      • 8.3 SA Model
      • 8.4 Fourier Transform
      • 8.5 Summary
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    • 9. Image Segmentation
      • 9.1 Region Growing
      • 9.2 Implementation
      • 9.3 Summary
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    • 10. Segment Features
      • 10.1 Segment Border Features
      • 10.2 Parallelogram Fitting
      • 10.3 Scene Illumination Features
      • 10.4 Luminance Features
      • 10.5 Simple and Derived Features
      • 10.6 Record Format
      • 10.7 Summary
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    • 11. Segment Classification
      • 11.1 Manual Classification
      • 11.2 Hough-like Building Row Detection
      • 11.3 CART Classification
      • 11.4 Model-based Building Detection
      • 11.5 Summary
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    • Appendix B. Pixel Classification Results
      • B.1 Linear Discriminant Analysis Results
      • B.2 Quadratic Discriminant Analysis Results
      • B.3 CART Results
      • B.4 K-Mean Clustering Results
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    • Appendix C. Texture Results
      • C.1 GLCM Results
      • C.2 SAR Results
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    • Appendix D. Segment Classification
      • D.1 CART Classification using Local Features
      • D.2 CART Classification using Contextual Features
     
 

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