An Application of Ant Colony Algorithm for Edge Feature Extraction in City Aerial Image for Building Recognition

Author

Yurong, Guo ; Zhenzhong, Wei ; Guangjun, Zhang

Author_Institution

Minist. of Educ., Beijing

fYear

2007

Abstract

Over the years, automatic and semiautomatic extraction of building from aerial and spatial images has become an outstanding issue. This paper presents an application of ant colony algorithm (ACA) for edge extraction in city aerial image for building recognition. The overall idea of this work is clustering pixels by a character complex of gray value, gradient and neighborhood of each pixel. The results of ACA will be compared with the results of Canny operator which is considered as the best edge feature extracting operator. And the comparison indicated that ACA is efficient in edge feature extraction, especially for the aerial images.

Keywords

edge detection; feature extraction; aerial images; ant colony algorithm; building recognition; edge feature extraction; spatial images; Ant colony optimization; Buildings; Cities and towns; Clustering algorithms; Data mining; Feature extraction; Geographic Information Systems; Image edge detection; Image recognition; Instruments; Ant colony algorithm; aerial image; edge feature extraction;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronic Measurement and Instruments, 2007. ICEMI '07. 8th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Xi´an

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1136-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1136-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICEMI.2007.4350837

Filename

4350837