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Segmentation Method Using Optimized Merging for High Resolution Remote Sensing Images
Received date: 2015-04-01
Request revised date: 2015-12-02
Online published: 2016-07-15
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Study on the segmentation method for high resolution remote sensing images is very important for the processing and application of remote sensing data. Image segmentation plays an important role in geographic object-based image analysis, and it is also very useful in GIS data management and remote sensing data compression. A new segmentation algorithm using optimized merging criteria is proposed in this paper. The proposed algorithm divides the merging process into two stages, including the local best merging and the global best merging. Hierarchical agglomerative clustering is used to implement the first stage to meet the main objective of increasing the running efficiency. The merging criterion in the first stage focuses on the regional geometric information to create the visually pleasing segments, and in addition, this criterion is constructed on the premise that the regions to be merged should be sufficiently similar in spectra. Thus, when designing the merging criterion of the local best merge, the spectral and geometric information are both taken into consideration. Moreover, Global Moran′s I is used to determine the ending condition for the first stage. After the local best merging, the region adjacency graph (RAG) is constructed to implement the global best merging, in which the spectral and edge information is taken into account. In this stage, the negative impact introduced by the regions′ scale is found throughout the experiments. Thus, the size information of each region is excluded from the merging criterion of the global best merging. In addition, a special binary search tree, which is called the red-black tree, is used in the implementation to rank the edges of RAG, so as to speed up the graph structure updating after a merging taking place. High resolution images acquired from OrbView3 are adopted to conduct the segmentation experiment, the results of which indicate that our algorithm can produce the satisfactory performance. The conclusions made in this paper may provide new insights for the studies on remote sensing image segmentation and the related researches.
SU Tengfei , ZHANG Shengwei , LI Hongyu . Segmentation Method Using Optimized Merging for High Resolution Remote Sensing Images[J]. Journal of Geo-information Science, 2016 , 18(7) : 931 -940 . DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1047.2016.00931
Fig.1 Algorithm flowchart图1 算法流程 |
Fig.2 The flowchart of global best merge based on red-black tree图2 基于红黑树的全局最优合并算法流程图 |
Fig.3 The variation of spectral and compactness heterogeneity with the increase of the merge number图3 光谱与紧凑异质性随合并次数增长的变化 |
Fig.4 Two scenes of the OrbView3 multispectral images adopted by the experiment used in this paper图4 本文实验所采用的2景OrbView3多光谱影像 |
Fig.5 Segmentation results using the 3 algorithms for S1图5 3种算法的S1分割结果 |
Tab.1 Quantitative evaluation of the 3 algorithms for S1表1 3种算法的S1定量评价 |
P | R | F | 时间/s | |
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本文方法 | 0.9512 | 0.8624 | 0.8788 | 0.52 |
RHSeg | 0.8540 | 0.7979 | 0.8085 | 0.66 |
MRS | 0.9319 | 0.7450 | 0.7761 | 0.82 |
3.3.2 城市地区影像的分割实验 |
Tab.2 Quantitative evaluation of the 3 algorithms for S2表2 3种算法的S2定量评价 |
P | R | F | 时间/s | |
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本文方法 | 0.8037 | 0.8758 | 0.8603 | 0.44 |
RHSeg | 0.8674 | 0.7035 | 0.7311 | 0.96 |
MRS | 0.2498 | 0.9183 | 0.5981 | 0.80 |
Fig.6 Segmentation results using the 3 algorithms for S2图6 3种算法的S2分割结果 |
Fig.7 The segmentation of a scene with relatively good representativeness图7 一景较有代表性的遥感影像的分割结果 |
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
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