EVALUATING THE POTENTIAL OF TEXTURE AND COLOR DESCRIPTORS FOR REMOTE SENSING IMAGE RETRIEVAL AND CLASSIFICATION

Jefersson A. dos Santos, Otávio A. B. Penatti, Ricardo da S. Torres

2010

Abstract

Classifying Remote Sensing Images (RSI) is a hard task. There are automatic approaches whose results normally need to be revised. The identification and polygon extraction tasks usually rely on applying classification strategies that exploit visual aspects related to spectral and texture patterns identified in RSI regions. There are a lot of image descriptors proposed in the literature for content-based image retrieval purposes that may be useful for RSI classification. This paper presents a comparative study to evaluate the potential of using successful color and texture image descriptors for remote sensing retrieval and classification. Seven descriptors that encode texture information and twelve color descriptors that can be used to encode spectral information were selected. We perform experiments to evaluate the effectiveness of these descriptors, considering image retrieval and classification tasks. To evaluate descriptors in classification tasks, we also propose a methodology based on KNN classifier. Experiments demonstrate that Joint Auto-Correlogram (JAC), Color Bitmap, Invariant Steerable Pyramid Decomposition (SID) and Quantized Compound Change Histogram (QCCH) yield the best results.

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A. dos Santos J., A. B. Penatti O. and da S. Torres R. (2010). EVALUATING THE POTENTIAL OF TEXTURE AND COLOR DESCRIPTORS FOR REMOTE SENSING IMAGE RETRIEVAL AND CLASSIFICATION . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2010) ISBN 978-989-674-029-0, pages 203-208. DOI: 10.5220/0002843402030208


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@conference{visapp10,
author={Jefersson A. dos Santos and Otávio A. B. Penatti and Ricardo da S. Torres},
title={EVALUATING THE POTENTIAL OF TEXTURE AND COLOR DESCRIPTORS FOR REMOTE SENSING IMAGE RETRIEVAL AND CLASSIFICATION},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2010)},
year={2010},
pages={203-208},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002843402030208},
isbn={978-989-674-029-0},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2010)
TI - EVALUATING THE POTENTIAL OF TEXTURE AND COLOR DESCRIPTORS FOR REMOTE SENSING IMAGE RETRIEVAL AND CLASSIFICATION
SN - 978-989-674-029-0
AU - A. dos Santos J.
AU - A. B. Penatti O.
AU - da S. Torres R.
PY - 2010
SP - 203
EP - 208
DO - 10.5220/0002843402030208