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Man-Made Object Extraction from Remote Sensing Images Using Gabor Energy Features and Probabilistic Neural Networks


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1 Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Aliah University, India
2 Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Dhanbad, India
3 Department of Electrical Engineering, RCC Institute of Information Technology, India
     

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This paper presents a novel approach for man-made object extraction in remote sensing images. This paper focuses on the design and implementation of a system that allows a user to extract multiple objects such as buildings or roads from an input image without much user intervention. The framework includes five main stages: 1) Pre-processing Stage. 2) Extraction of Local energy features using edge information and Gabor filter followed by down sampling to reduce the redundant information. 3) Further reduction of the size of feature vectors using Wavelet decomposition. 4) Classification and recognition of man-made structures using Probabilistic Neural Network (PNN) 5) NDVI based post-classification refinement. Experiments are conducted on a dataset of 200 RS images. The proposed framework yields overall accuracy of 93%. Experimental results validate the effective performance of the suggested technique for extracting man-made objects from RS images. Compared with other methods; the proposed framework exhibits significantly improved accuracy results and computationally much more efficient. Most notably, it has a much smaller input size, which makes it more feasible in practical applications.

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Remote Sensing Image, Man-Made Object Extraction, Gabor Wavelets, Probabilistic Neural Network.
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Authors

Md. Abdul Alim Sheikh
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Aliah University, India
Tanmoy Maity
Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Dhanbad, India
Alok Kole
Department of Electrical Engineering, RCC Institute of Information Technology, India

Abstract


This paper presents a novel approach for man-made object extraction in remote sensing images. This paper focuses on the design and implementation of a system that allows a user to extract multiple objects such as buildings or roads from an input image without much user intervention. The framework includes five main stages: 1) Pre-processing Stage. 2) Extraction of Local energy features using edge information and Gabor filter followed by down sampling to reduce the redundant information. 3) Further reduction of the size of feature vectors using Wavelet decomposition. 4) Classification and recognition of man-made structures using Probabilistic Neural Network (PNN) 5) NDVI based post-classification refinement. Experiments are conducted on a dataset of 200 RS images. The proposed framework yields overall accuracy of 93%. Experimental results validate the effective performance of the suggested technique for extracting man-made objects from RS images. Compared with other methods; the proposed framework exhibits significantly improved accuracy results and computationally much more efficient. Most notably, it has a much smaller input size, which makes it more feasible in practical applications.

Keywords


Remote Sensing Image, Man-Made Object Extraction, Gabor Wavelets, Probabilistic Neural Network.

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