TY - GEN
T1 - Vehicle detection in aerial images using multiscale structure enhancement and symmetry
AU - Ram, Sundaresh
AU - Rodriguez, Jeffrey J
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 IEEE.
PY - 2016/8/3
Y1 - 2016/8/3
N2 - Accurate detection and localization of vehicles in aerial images has a wide range of applications including urban planning, military reconnaissance, visual surveillance, and realtime traffic management. Automated detection of vehicles in aerial imagery is a challenging task, due to the density of vehicles on the road, the complexity of the surrounding environment in urban areas, and low spatial resolution of the image sensor array. We propose an automated method for detecting vehicles of varying sizes in low-resolution aerial imagery. First, we develop a new vehicle enhancement filter involving multiscale Hessian analysis. After thresholding, we refine the candidate vehicle detections based on analysis of bilateral symmetry. We show that our proposed method provides improved detection accuracy compared with existing vehicle detection algorithms for various low-resolution aerial images.
AB - Accurate detection and localization of vehicles in aerial images has a wide range of applications including urban planning, military reconnaissance, visual surveillance, and realtime traffic management. Automated detection of vehicles in aerial imagery is a challenging task, due to the density of vehicles on the road, the complexity of the surrounding environment in urban areas, and low spatial resolution of the image sensor array. We propose an automated method for detecting vehicles of varying sizes in low-resolution aerial imagery. First, we develop a new vehicle enhancement filter involving multiscale Hessian analysis. After thresholding, we refine the candidate vehicle detections based on analysis of bilateral symmetry. We show that our proposed method provides improved detection accuracy compared with existing vehicle detection algorithms for various low-resolution aerial images.
KW - Aerial imagery
KW - Bilateral symmetry
KW - Hessian filter
KW - Vehicle detection
KW - Wavelet transform
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U2 - 10.1109/ICIP.2016.7533074
DO - 10.1109/ICIP.2016.7533074
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85006741506
T3 - Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP
SP - 3817
EP - 3821
BT - 2016 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2016 - Proceedings
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 23rd IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2016
Y2 - 25 September 2016 through 28 September 2016
ER -