Title
Change Detection Using L 0 Smoothing and Superpixel Techniques.
Abstract
We propose an unsupervised change detection method for satellite images using $$L_0$$ smoothing, superpixel techniques and k-means. First, we produce the difference image according to image types synthetic aperture radar or optical images. Second, we use $$L_0$$ smoothing, an image editing method that can simultaneously sharpen major edges and smooth low-amplitude structures, to generate two difference images with distinct smooth levels. Third, k-means algorithm with $$k=2$$ is applied on one smoothed difference image to cluster all pixels into changed or unchanged classes. Fourth, the Voronoi-Cells VCells algorithm is applied on the other difference image to obtain roughly uniform superpixels while preserving local image boundaries. Finally, we calculate the change degree for each superpixel, and the change detection map is produced by using k-means again. The novelties of this paper are that we use the $$L_0$$ smoothing to reduce noise and preserve edges, and utilize the spatial information with the help of superpixel. Experimental results on synthetic aperture radar and optical images show the effectiveness of our approach.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1007/978-3-319-25159-2_54
KSEM
Keywords
Field
DocType
Change detection,L-0 smoothing,Superpixel
Spatial analysis,Computer vision,Satellite,Change detection,Pattern recognition,Synthetic aperture radar,Computer science,Image editing,Smoothing,Artificial intelligence,Pixel
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
9403
0302-9743
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
13
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xiaoliang Shi100.68
Yingying Xu241.05
Guixu Zhang3254.12
Chaomin Shen416112.57