Road Extraction From Aerial Video Using Active Contours and Motion Cues

Authors

David A. Jurgens, Washington University in St. Louis

Document Type

Technical Report

Publication Date

2004-08-10

Filename

wucse-2004-49.pdf

Technical Report Number

WUCSE-2004-49

Abstract

This thesis motivates a fully automatic approach for locating roads in aerial video by using active contours in conjunction with motion cues. Directed active contours provide ideal parametric representations of roads due to their ability to fit the variety seen in road shapes. Motion in stabilized aerial video can be represented as a distribution of spatio-temporal derivatives. These motion cues can then be incorporated into the energy function, which yields active contours that better model the active roads in a scene. We present results using this approach on typical models of both urban and rural scenes.

Comments

Permanent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.7936/K7RN366X

Recommended Citation

Jurgens, David A., "Road Extraction From Aerial Video Using Active Contours and Motion Cues" Report Number: WUCSE-2004-49 (2004). All Computer Science and Engineering Research.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cse_research/1022