1. Automatic Attribute Profiles
- Author
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Cavallaro, Gabriele, Falco, Nicola, Mura, Mauro Dalla, and Benediktsson, Jón Atli
- Subjects
Data Management and Data Science ,Information and Computing Sciences ,Computer Vision and Multimedia Computation ,Automatic attribute profiles ,filter parameter selection ,tree representation ,mathematical morphology ,remote sensing ,image processing ,Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing ,Electrical and Electronic Engineering ,Cognitive Sciences ,Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing ,Computer vision and multimedia computation ,Graphics ,augmented reality and games - Abstract
Morphological attribute profiles are multilevel decompositions of images obtained with a sequence of transformations performed by connected operators. They have been extensively employed in performing multi-scale and region-based analysis in a large number of applications. One main, still unresolved, issue is the selection of filter parameters able to provide representative and non-redundant threshold decomposition of the image. This paper presents a framework for the automatic selection of filter thresholds based on Granulometric Characteristic Functions (GCFs). GCFs describe the way that non-linear morphological filters simplify a scene according to a given measure. Since attribute filters rely on a hierarchical representation of an image (e.g., the Tree of Shapes) for their implementation, GCFs can be efficiently computed by taking advantage of the tree representation. Eventually, the study of the GCFs allows the identification of a meaningful set of thresholds. Therefore, a trial and error approach is not necessary for the threshold selection, automating the process and in turn decreasing the computational time. It is shown that the redundant information is reduced within the resulting profiles (a problem of high occurrence, as regards manual selection). The proposed approach is tested on two real remote sensing data sets, and the classification results are compared with strategies present in the literature.
- Published
- 2017