Automatic road extraction from satellite imagery using LEGION Networks

Jiangye Yuan, De Liang Wang, Bo Wu, Lin Yan, Rongxing Li

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Abstract

We present an automatic method for road extraction from satellite imagery. The core of the proposed method is Locally Excitatory Globally Inhibitory Oscillator Networks (LEGION). We decompose the road extraction task into three stages. The first stage is image segmentation by LEGION. In the second stage, we compute the medial axis of each segment and select the segments with narrow widths. The third is the road grouping stage. With the medial axes, alignment-dependent connections between medial axis points are established and LEGION is utilized to group the well-aligned medial axes, which represent extracted road segments. Due to the selective gating mechanism of LEGION, different roads in an image are grouped separately. Experimental results on synthetic and real images show the effectiveness of this method.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2009 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN 2009
Pages3471-3476
Number of pages6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 18 Nov 2009
Externally publishedYes
Event2009 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN 2009 - Atlanta, GA, United States
Duration: 14 Jun 200919 Jun 2009

Conference

Conference2009 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN 2009
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityAtlanta, GA
Period14/06/0919/06/09

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Artificial Intelligence

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