Extraction of buildings in satellite images

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Tezin Türü: Yüksek Lisans

Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi, Mühendislik Fakültesi, Elektrik ve Elektronik Mühendisliği Bölümü, Türkiye

Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2010

Öğrenci: MELİH ÇETİN

Eş Danışman: ABDULLAH AYDIN ALATAN, UĞUR HALICI

Özet:

In this study, an automated building extraction system, which is capable of detecting buildings from satellite images using only RGB color band is implemented. The approach used in this work has four main steps: local feature extraction, feature selection, classification and post processing. There are many studies in literature that deal with the same problem. The main issue is to find the most suitable features to distinguish a building. This work presents a feature selection scheme that is connected with the classification framework of Adaboost. As well as Adaboost, four SVM kernels are used for classification. Detailed analysis regarding window type and size, feature type, feature selection, feature count and training set is done for determining the optimal parameters for the classifiers. A detailed comparison of SVM and Adaboost is done based on pixel and object performances and the results obtained are presented both numerically and visually. It is observed that SVM performs better if quadratic kernel is used than the cases using linear, RBF or polynomial kernels. SVM performance is better if features are selected either by Adaboost or by considering errors obtained on histograms of features. The performance obtained by quadratic kernel SVM operated on Adaboost selected features is found to be 38% in terms of pixel based performance criteria quality percentage and 48% in terms object based performance criteria correct detection with building detection threshold 0.4. Adaboost performed better than SVM resulting in 43% quality percentage and 67% correct detection with the same threshold.