Evaluation of selected features for car detection in aerial images

Sebastian Tuermer, Jens Leitloff, Peter Reinartz, Uwe Stilla

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Abstract

The extraction of vehicles from aerial images provides a wide area traffic situation within a short time. Applications for the gathered data are various and reach from smart routing in the case of congestions to usability validation of roads in the case of disasters. The challenge of the vehicle detection task is finding adequate features which are capable to separate cars from other objects; especially those that look similar. We present an experiment where selected features show their ability of car detection. Precisely, Haar-like and HoG features are utilized and passed to the AdaBoost algorithm for calculating the final detector. Afterwards the classifying power of the features is accurately analyzed and evaluated. The tests a carried out on aerial data from the inner city of Munich, Germany and include small inner city roads with rooftops close by which raise the complexity factor.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)341-346
Number of pages6
JournalInternational Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives
Volume38
Issue number4W19
StatePublished - 5 Sep 2011
Event2011 ISPRS Hannover Workshop on High-Resolution Earth Imaging for Geospatial Information - Hannover, Germany
Duration: 14 Jun 201117 Jun 2011

Keywords

  • 3K camera system
  • Aerial images
  • Boosting
  • Haar-like features
  • HoG features
  • Vehicle detection

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