Skip to main content

Airport detection in large aerial optical imagery

Publication ,  Journal Article
Liu, D; He, L; Carin, L
Published in: ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
2004

A method to detect airports in large aerial optical imagery is considered. Combining texture segmentation and shape detection, this method shows advantages in analyzing large aerial imagery. First, large aerial images are segmented and interpreted according to textural features using a fast kernel matching pursuits (KMP) algorithm. As a result, attention is then paid on small regions of interest, extracted from the large images. Second, for each region of interest, a corresponding binary image is generated via the Canny edge operator, yielding a modified Hough transform image with which we search for elongated rectangles with desired dimensions (characteristic of runways). Those detected rectangles are declared as runways and the corresponding region of interest as an airport. Application in a dozen aerial images from southern California demonstrates the effectiveness of the algorithm.

Duke Scholars

Published In

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

ISSN

1520-6149

Publication Date

2004

Volume

5

Start / End Page

V-761-V-764
 

Citation

APA
Chicago
ICMJE
MLA
NLM
Liu, D., He, L., & Carin, L. (2004). Airport detection in large aerial optical imagery. ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings, 5, V-761-V–764.
Liu, D., L. He, and L. Carin. “Airport detection in large aerial optical imagery.” ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings 5 (2004): V-761-V–764.
Liu D, He L, Carin L. Airport detection in large aerial optical imagery. ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings. 2004;5:V-761-V–764.
Liu, D., et al. “Airport detection in large aerial optical imagery.” ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings, vol. 5, 2004, pp. V-761-V–764.
Liu D, He L, Carin L. Airport detection in large aerial optical imagery. ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings. 2004;5:V-761-V–764.

Published In

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

ISSN

1520-6149

Publication Date

2004

Volume

5

Start / End Page

V-761-V-764