Pyramidal watershed segmentation algorithm for high-resolution remote sensing images using discrete wavelet transforms

DOI10.1155/2009/601638MaRDI QIDQ1040140zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors J. Blot

Publication date 23 November 2009

Published in Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/233509

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical methods for wavelets (65T60) Image processing (compression, reconstruction, etc.) in information and communication theory (94A08) Application of orthogonal and other special functions (94A11)

Review text

Summary: The watershed transformation is a useful morphological segmentation tool for a variety of grey-scale images. However, over segmentation and under segmentation have become the key problems for the conventional algorithm. In this paper, an efficient segmentation method for high-resolution remote sensing image analysis is presented. Wavelet analysis is one of the most popular techniques that can be used to detect local intensity variation and hence the wavelet transformation is used to analyze the image. Wavelet transform is applied to the image, producing detail (horizontal, vertical, and diagonal) and Approximation coefficients. The image gradient with selective regional minima is estimated with the grey-scale morphology for the Approximation image at a suitable resolution, and then the watershed is applied to the gradient image to avoid over segmentation. The segmented image is projected up to high resolutions using the inverse wavelet transform. The watershed segmentation is applied to small subset size image, demanding less computational time. We have applied our new approach to analyze remote sensing images. The algorithm was implemented in MATLAB. Experimental results demonstrated the method to be effective.

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Uses Software

• Matlab

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