scholarly journals GEOMETRIC QUALITY EVALUATION METHOD FOR MULTI-VIEW SATELLITE IMAGES IN 3D RECONSTRUCTION

Author(s):  
H. Yi ◽  
X. Chen ◽  
D. Wang ◽  
S. Du ◽  
B. Xu ◽  
...  

Abstract. The quality of the 3D model reconstructed using multi-view satellite image depends on the quality of the image. To evaluate the geometric quality of the satellite image, we proposed a method to evaluate the geometric distortion for satellite images and defined the deviation coefficient as a metric to evaluate the bending degree of a curve. After projecting a ground grid consisting of straight lines into the image space, the geometric distortion of the image can be evaluated quantitatively by calculating the deviation coefficients of the projection trajectories. Experiments have been carried out with three datasets obtained by JiLin-1, GaoFen-2, and WorldView-3 respectively. The results show that the proposed method can used to evaluate the geometric quality of satellite images effectively, and this evaluation method will be useful in image selecting in 3D reconstruction using multi-view satellite images.

Author(s):  
Z. Ye ◽  
Y. Xu ◽  
C. Wei ◽  
X. Tong ◽  
U. Stilla

Abstract. Satellite jitter is a common and complicated phenomenon that degrades the geometric quality of high-resolution satellite images. Imagery-based detection and compensation of satellite jitter have recently been widely concerned. However, most of the existing studies overlook the issue of image interpolation in this topic involving subpixel measurements. In this study, the influence of image interpolation on imagery-based detection and compensation of satellite jitter is investigated. Four different interpolators are separately applied in dense least squares matching for jitter detection based on parallax observation and in intensity resampling for jitter distortion compensation. Experiments were carried out using ZiYuan-3 dataset to compare and analyze the results in the case of different image interpolation. The experimental results demonstrate the influence of image interpolation on imagery-based jitter processing. Inferior interpolators can induce pixel locking effect in subpixel matching and position-dependent systematic bias after image correction, which deteriorate the performance of jitter detection and compensation. To ensure the reliability, sophisticated interpolation algorithms with smaller phase errors are preferable in imagery-based jitter detection and compensation.


2010 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 1293-1306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erhan Alparslan ◽  
H. Gonca Coskun ◽  
Ugur Alganci

Darlik Dam supplies 15% of the water demand of Istanbul Metropolitan City of Turkey. Water quality (WQ) in the Darlik Dam was investigated from Landsat 5 TM satellite images of the years 2004, 2005, and 2006 in order to determine land use/land cover changes in the watershed of the dam that may deteriorate its WQ. The images were geometrically and atmospherically corrected for WQ analysis. Next, an investigation was made by multiple regression analysis between the unitless planetary reflectance values of the first four bands of the June 2005 Landsat TM image of the dam and WQ parameters, such as chlorophyll-a, total dissolved matter, turbidity, total phosphorous, and total nitrogen, measured at satellite image acquisition time at seven stations in the dam. Finally, WQ in the dam was studied from satellite images of the years 2004, 2005, and 2006 by pattern recognition techniques in order to determine possible water pollution in the dam. This study was compared to a previous study done by the authors in the Küçükçekmece water reservoir, also in Istanbul City.


Author(s):  
Sanjith Sathya Joseph ◽  
R. Ganesan

Image compression is the process of reducing the size of a file without humiliating the quality of the image to an unacceptable level by Human Visual System. The reduction in file size allows as to store more data in less memory and speed up the transmission process in low bandwidth also, in case of satellite images it reduces the time required for the image to reach the ground station. In order to increase the transmission process compression plays an important role in remote sensing images.  This paper presents a coding scheme for satellite images using Vector Quantization. And it is a well-known technique for signal compression, and it is also the generalization of the scalar quantization.  The given satellite image is compressed using VCDemo software by creating codebooks for vector quantization and the quality of the compressed and decompressed image is compared by the Mean Square Error, Signal to Noise Ratio, Peak Signal to Noise Ratio values.


2019 ◽  
Vol 224 ◽  
pp. 04010
Author(s):  
Viacheslav Voronin

The quality of remotely sensed satellite images depends on the reflected electromagnetic radiation from the earth’s surface features. Lack of consistent and similar amounts of energy reflected by different features from the earth’s surface results in a poor contrast satellite image. Image enhancement is the image processing of improving the quality that the results are more suitable for display or further image analysis. In this paper, we present a detailed model for color image enhancement using the quaternion framework. We introduce a novel quaternionic frequency enhancement algorithm that can combine the color channels and the local and global image processing. The basic idea is to apply the α-rooting image enhancement approach for different image blocks. For this purpose, we split image in moving windows on disjoint blocks. The parameter alfa for every block and the weights for every local and global enhanced image driven through optimization of measure of enhancement (EMEC). Some presented experimental results illustrate the performance of the proposed approach on color satellite images in comparison with the state-of-the-art methods.


2019 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ticiane De Góes Mário Ferreira ◽  
José Mariano Da Rocha ◽  
Silvia Cardoso de David ◽  
Jociana Boligon ◽  
Maísa Casarin ◽  
...  

OBJECTIVE: To describe the sampling strategy of an epidemiological survey with the aid of satellite images, including details of the multistage probability sampling process. METHODS: A probability sample of individuals living in the rural area of Rosário do Sul, state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, aged 15 years old or more, was evaluated. Participants answered questionnaires (medical history, sociodemographic characteristics, habits, alcohol use, quality of life, stress, rumination, and self-perceived periodontal diseases), and were subjected to clinical oral examinations as well as anthropometric measurements (blood pressure, height, weight, abdominal and waist circumferences). Oral evaluation comprehended a complete periodontal exam at six sites per tooth, including the following assessments: furcation involvement; dental abrasion; tooth decay, including the indexing of missing and filled surfaces; O’Brien index; gingival abrasion; oral cavity and lip lesions; complete periapical radiographic exam, and use of prostheses. Besides this oral clinical approach, subgingival plaque, crevicular gingival fluid, saliva, and blood samples were collected. Examiners were trained and calibrated during previous evaluations. A pilot study allowed the logistic of the performed exams to be adjusted as needed. RESULTS: Among 1,087 eligible individuals, 688 were examined (63.3%). Age, sex, and skin color data were compared to data from the last demographic census (2010) of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, which served to validate the sampling strategy. CONCLUSIONS: The careful methods used in this study, in which satellite images were used in the delimitation of epidemiological areas, ensure the quality of the estimates obtained and allow for these estimates to be used in oral health surveillance and health policies improvements.


2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (9) ◽  
pp. 4003-4007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neetu Manocha ◽  
Rajeev Gupta

Due to environment untidiness and inappropriate setting or dealing of camera, a satellite image contains blur or other types of noises. These images are captured by satellites consist lots of information about the surface of earth or other planets. But, due to blur or noise, the quality of these images is degraded. Now days, there are many fields in which satellite images are used, which effects the environment. The accuracy and effective visual display of satellite images with high image resolution using CBIR technique is major concern. This paper presents a comparative analysis of existing satellite image enhancement techniques to reduce the blur of an image on the basis of accuracy and response time. The aim of research work is to eliminate the noise without losing high frequency details and to enhance the image for effective visual display.


2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (24) ◽  
pp. 4152
Author(s):  
Giruta Kazakeviciute-Januskeviciene ◽  
Edgaras Janusonis ◽  
Romualdas Bausys ◽  
Tadas Limba ◽  
Mindaugas Kiskis

The evaluation of remote sensing imagery segmentation results plays an important role in the further image analysis and decision-making. The search for the optimal segmentation method for a particular data set and the suitability of segmentation results for the use in satellite image classification are examples where the proper image segmentation quality assessment can affect the quality of the final result. There is no extensive research related to the assessment of the segmentation effectiveness of the images. The designed objective quality assessment metrics that can be used to assess the quality of the obtained segmentation results usually take into account the subjective features of the human visual system (HVS). A novel approach is used in the article to estimate the effectiveness of satellite image segmentation by relating and determining the correlation between subjective and objective segmentation quality metrics. Pearson’s and Spearman’s correlation was used for satellite images after applying a k-means++ clustering algorithm based on colour information. Simultaneously, the dataset of the satellite images with ground truth (GT) based on the “DeepGlobe Land Cover Classification Challenge” dataset was constructed for testing three classes of quality metrics for satellite image segmentation.


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (16) ◽  
pp. 3301
Author(s):  
Yeonju Choi ◽  
Sanghyuck Han ◽  
Yongwoo Kim

In recent years, research on increasing the spatial resolution and enhancing the quality of satellite images using the deep learning-based super-resolution (SR) method has been actively conducted. In a remote sensing field, conventional SR methods required high-quality satellite images as the ground truth. However, in most cases, high-quality satellite images are difficult to acquire because many image distortions occur owing to various imaging conditions. To address this problem, we propose an adaptive image quality modification method to improve SR image quality for the KOrea Multi-Purpose Satellite-3 (KOMPSAT-3). The KOMPSAT-3 is a high performance optical satellite, which provides 0.7-m ground sampling distance (GSD) panchromatic and 2.8-m GSD multi-spectral images for various applications. We proposed an SR method with a scale factor of 2 for the panchromatic and pan-sharpened images of KOMPSAT-3. The proposed SR method presents a degradation model that generates a low-quality image for training, and a method for improving the quality of the raw satellite image. The proposed degradation model for low-resolution input image generation is based on Gaussian noise and blur kernel. In addition, top-hat and bottom-hat transformation is applied to the original satellite image to generate an enhanced satellite image with improved edge sharpness or image clarity. Using this enhanced satellite image as the ground truth, an SR network is then trained. The performance of the proposed method was evaluated by comparing it with other SR methods in multiple ways, such as edge extraction, visual inspection, qualitative analysis, and the performance of object detection. Experimental results show that the proposed SR method achieves improved reconstruction results and perceptual quality compared to conventional SR methods.


Author(s):  
Bipin D. Tamkhane

An image intensification is a required methodology in field of Satellite image research area. The images taken through satellite are captured from very longer distance and because of this images having garbling and noise as lots of airy barriers are present in between the path. The usage of Satellite images is very diverse in research areas like astrological studies, geographical studies, study of geoscience, etc. Nowadays, after taking a snapshot of an image, some of the radiometric or geometric based enhancement techniques are applied on the images taken from satellite but these techniques do not fulfill the requirements in all application areas. This is what there is a need to improvise the quality of an image before it is being actually used. The main objective behind this research work is to understand the different methodologies used in intensification of satellite images and how can we perform more improvements to existing techniques so these type of images which are taken from satellite are intelligible to the human eyes. The meaning of intensification in term of image is nothing but the altering of a look and feel of the image in a way that the information contained by that image is more readily intelligible visually.


Author(s):  
B. Vallet ◽  
B. Soheilian ◽  
M. Brédif

The 3D reconstruction of similar 3D objects detected in 2D faces a major issue when it comes to grouping the 2D detections into clusters to be used to reconstruct the individual 3D objects. Simple clustering heuristics fail as soon as similar objects are close. This paper formulates a framework to use the geometric quality of the reconstruction as a hint to do a proper clustering. We present a methodology to solve the resulting combinatorial optimization problem with some simplifications and approximations in order to make it tractable. The proposed method is applied to the reconstruction of 3D traffic signs from their 2D detections to demonstrate its capacity to solve ambiguities.


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