Author Affiliations
1School of Geoscience, Yangtze University, Wuhan, Hubei 430100, China2State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079, Chinashow less
Fig. 1. Initial results of buildings extracted by shifted shadow analysis. (a) Original remote sensing image A; (b) initial result of building A; (c) original remote sensing image B; (d) initial result of building B
Fig. 2. Flow chart of building contour optimization
Fig. 3. Principle of preliminary fitting
Fig. 4. Preliminary fitting effect of building edge contour. (a) Original remote sensing image; (b) initial results of building extraction; (c) building contour after preliminary fitting
Fig. 5. Inclination of building contour and its circumscribed rectangle with minimum area. (a) Consistent; (b) inconsistent
Fig. 6. Schematics for judging inclination of polygon. (a) Overall positive inclination; (b) overall negative inclination
Fig. 7. Principles of regularization of building contour. (a) Schematic for dividing contour into equal segments; (b) schematic of Hausdorff distance calculation
Fig. 8. Principle and effect of regularization of building contour
Fig. 9. Comparison of extraction results of building contour in image 1#. (a) Original remote sensing image; (b) extraction result by object-oriented segmentation and classification method; (c) extraction result by shifted shadow analysis method; (d) extraction result by proposed method
Fig. 10. Comparison of extraction results of building contour in image 2#. (a) Original remote sensing image; (b) extraction result by object-oriented segmentation and classification method; (c) extraction result by shifted shadow analysis method; (d) extraction result by proposed method
Fig. 11. Comparison of extraction results of building contour in image 3#. (a) Original remote sensing image; (b) extraction result by object-oriented segmentation and classification method; (c) extraction result by shifted shadow analysis method; (d) extraction result by proposed method
Fig. 12. Comparison of extraction results of building contour in image 4#. (a) Original remote sensing image; (b) extraction result by object-oriented segmentation and classification method; (c) extraction result by shifted shadow analysis method; (d) extraction result by proposed method
Fig. 13. Comparison of extraction results of building contour in image 5#. (a) Original remote sensing image; (b) extraction result by object-oriented segmentation and classification method; (c) extraction result by shifted shadow analysis method; (d) extraction result by proposed method
Imagenumber | Extraction method | Pixel-based performance parameter | Object-based performance parameter |
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VCM | VCR | F1 | VOA | VCM | VCR | F1 | VOA |
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| Proposed method | 95.69 | 94.46 | 95.07 | 90.61 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 1# | Object-oriented method | 92.75 | 73.18 | 81.81 | 69.22 | 100.00 | 43.33 | 60.46 | 43.33 | | Shifted shadow analysis method | 89.98 | 95.62 | 92.72 | 86.42 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | | Proposed method | 88.12 | 97.13 | 92.41 | 85.89 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 2# | Object-oriented method | 89.76 | 81.37 | 85.36 | 74.46 | 100.00 | 78.57 | 88.00 | 78.57 | | Shifted shadow analysis method | 85.92 | 98.13 | 91.62 | 84.54 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | | Proposed method | 94.11 | 99.81 | 96.88 | 93.95 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 3# | Object-oriented method | 91.86 | 84.62 | 88.09 | 78.72 | 100.00 | 74.07 | 85.10 | 74.07 | | Shifted shadow analysis method | 87.30 | 98.49 | 92.55 | 86.14 | 100.00 | 00.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | | Proposed method | 88.39 | 97.53 | 92.73 | 86.46 | 98.59 | 100.00 | 99.29 | 98.59 | 4# | Object-oriented method | 80.11 | 72.07 | 75.88 | 61.13 | 100.00 | 80.68 | 89.30 | 80.68 | | Shifted shadow analysis method | 73.77 | 98.40 | 84.33 | 72.90 | 95.77 | 100.00 | 97.84 | 95.77 | | Proposed method | 91.26 | 99.05 | 95.00 | 90.48 | 100.00 | 100.0 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 5# | Object-oriented method | 75.52 | 89.51 | 81.92 | 69.38 | 97.85 | 95.80 | 96.81 | 93.83 | | Shifted shadow analysis method | 75.49 | 99.11 | 85.70 | 74.98 | 99.28 | 97.88 | 98.58 | 97.20 |
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Table 1. Comparison of precision of building extraction results shown in Figs. 9--13%