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http://dx.doi.org/10.7780/kjrs.2017.33.6.1.10

Horse Hoof Shaped Object Detection in Satellite Images  

Lim, In-Geun (Agency for Defense Development)
Ra, Sung-Woong (Electronics Engineering, Chung-Nam National University)
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Korean Journal of Remote Sensing / v.33, no.6_1, 2017 , pp. 1019-1027 More about this Journal
Abstract
As high resolution satellite images can be used, numerous studies have been carried out for exploiting these images in various fields. This paper proposes horse hoof shaped object detection method based on mathematical morphology to extract interesting targets. Interesting targets have conceptually similar shapes such as a horse hoof, not having exact size or shape. Detection of an object with the similar shapes is possible by applying mathematical morphology processes. The proposed method allows an automatic object detection system to detect the meaningful object in a large satellite image rapidly. The mathematical morphology process can be applied to binary images, and thus this method is very simple. Therefore, this method can easily extract a "horse hoof shaped object" from any image that has indistinct edges of the interesting object and different image qualities depending on the filming location, filming time, and filming environment. Using the proposed method by which a "horse hoof shaped object" can be rapidly extracted, the performance of the automatic object detection system can be improved.
Keywords
horse hoof shaped object; satellite image; mathematical morphology;
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