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REAL TIME SEGMENTATION METHOD FOR AERIAL IMAGES

Dan Ionescu, Eaderddine Karoui University of Ottawa, Deparbnent of Electrical Engineering 770 King Edward, Ottawa, Ont, K I N 6N5

Abstract

The morphological transformations which preserve connectivity are used in order to obtain suucturing elements which represent characteristic features invariant to rotation and translations of the objects in an aerial image. The high level invariant suucturing elements a m used for die image segmetation. The application of mathematical morphology mthods on aerial images provide also inverse operators,These inverse operators, in case of ordered set allow to separate the objects and to further apply other morphological transformations in order to obtain characteristics features which allow the object identification. Practical applications of the proposed segmentation method are given at the end of the paper. The use of a linear mesh architecture which applies the same transformation on a complete raw of the analyzedimage preforms the real-time side of the methology. In this paper the case of filtering the image is not considered. However, in the application a specid adaptive filter was used in order to properly eliminate the noise. O n the other hand the noise affects only the low level features obtained through recursive applications of morphogical transformations. Using top level features the procedure becomes noise insensitive, A tradeoff is made between the noise sensitivity, timing and the hierarchy degree. Experiments with real aerial images andthe linear mesh architecture confirmed the method generality.