Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 57, Issue 6, 061005(2020)

Road Extraction Algorithm for Remote Sensing Images Based on Improved Expectation-Maximization Clustering

Zongjun Zhang and Fengbao Yang*
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  • College of Information and Communication Engineering, North University of China, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030051, China
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    High-resolution remote sensing image
    Road extraction process. (a) Image mathematical morphology processing result; (b) image EM clustering result; (c) image contour detection result; (d) road extraction result
    Processing results of experimental data 1. (a) Original picture; (b) image contour detection result; (c) road extraction result; (d) extraction results are superimposed on original image
    Processing results of experimental data 2. (a) Original picture; (b) image contour detection result; (c) road extraction result; (d) extraction results are superimposed on original image
    Extraction effects of traditional method. Extraction results of (a)data 1 and (b) data 2 obtained by Hongh transformation based method; extraction results of (c)data 1 and (d) data 2 obtained by watershed threshold segmentation combined with shape features
    Test set data and extraction results. (a) Test set data 1; (b) test set data 2; (c) test set data 3; (d) extraction result of test set data 1; (e) extraction result of test set data 2; (f) extraction result of test set data 3
    • Table 1. Evaluation results for data 1

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      Table 1. Evaluation results for data 1

      MethodP /%R /%D /%
      Hough transform57.60.8442.4
      Watershed threshold segmentation90.420.609.6
      Proposed method92.63.607.4
    • Table 2. Evaluation results for data 2

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      Table 2. Evaluation results for data 2

      MethodP /%R /%D /%
      Hough transform62.40.9237.6
      Watershed threshold segmentation91.815.208.2
      Method of this paper92.54.307.5
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    Paper Information

    Category: Image Processing

    Received: Jun. 22, 2019

    Accepted: Aug. 28, 2019

    Published Online: Mar. 6, 2020

    The Author Email: Fengbao Yang (yangfb@nuc.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/LOP57.061005

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