On the complementarity of an ontology and a nearest neighbour classifier for remotely sensed image interpretation

Automatic image interpretation could be achieved by first performing a segmentation of the image, i.e. aggregating similar pixels to form regions, then use a region-based classification. This paper presents two region-based classifications, namely a supervised classification and an ontology-based classification and discuss their pros and cons. As they are complementary, we propose to combine these two approaches. Results shown that the presented method is relevant.