Journal article

Performance evaluation of automated approaches to building detection in multi-source aerial data

Kourosh Khoshelham, Carla Nardinocchi, Emanuele Frontoni, Adriano Mancini, Primo Zingaretti

ISPRS JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING | ELSEVIER | Published : 2010

Abstract

Automated approaches to building detection in multi-source aerial data are important in many applications, including map updating, city modeling, urban growth analysis and monitoring of informal settlements. This paper presents a comparative analysis of different methods for automated building detection in aerial images and laser data at different spatial resolutions. Five methods are tested in two study areas using features extracted at both pixel level and object level, but with the strong prerequisite of using the same training set for all methods. The evaluation of the methods is based on error measures obtained by superimposing the results on a manually generated reference map of each a..

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