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Robust vehicle detection in aerial images using bag-of-words and orientation aware scanning
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posted on 2018-12-01, 00:00 authored by Hailing Zhou, Lei WeiLei Wei, Chee Peng LimChee Peng Lim, Douglas CreightonDouglas Creighton, Saeid NahavandiThis paper presents a novel approach to automatically detect and count cars in different aerial images, which can be satellite or unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) images. Variations in satellite and/or UAV data make it particularly challenging to have a robust method that works properly on a variety of images. A solution based on the bag-of-words (BoW) model is explored in this paper due to its invariance characteristic and highly stable performance in object/scene categorization. Different from categorization tasks, vehicle detection needs to localize the positions of cars in images. To make BoW suitable for this purpose, we extensively improve the methodology in three aspects, namely, by introducing a recently proposed feature representation, i.e., the local steering kernel descriptor, adding spatial structure constraints, and developing an orientation aware scanning mechanism to produce detection with 'one-window-one-car' results. Experiments are conducted on various aerial images with large variations, which consist of data from two public databases, e.g., the Overhead Imagery Research Data Set and Vehicle Detection in Aerial Imagery, as well as other satellite and UAV images. The results demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed method. Compared with existing techniques, the proposed method is applicable to a wider range of aerial images.
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IEEE transactions on geoscience and remote sensingVolume
56Issue
12Pagination
7074 - 7085Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics EngineersLocation
Piscataway, N.J.Publisher DOI
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0196-2892Language
engPublication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2018, IEEEUsage metrics
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Bag-of-words (BoW)local steering kernel (LSK)nonmaximum suppression (NMS)satellite imagesunmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)vehicle detectionScience & TechnologyPhysical SciencesTechnologyGeochemistry & GeophysicsEngineering, Electrical & ElectronicRemote SensingImaging Science & Photographic TechnologyEngineeringAREASCARSGeophysics
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