Title
Nighttime sky/cloud image segmentation
Abstract
Imaging the atmosphere using ground-based sky cameras is a popular approach to study various atmospheric phenomena. However, it usually focuses on the daytime. Nighttime sky/cloud images are darker and noisier, and thus harder to analyze. An accurate segmentation of sky/cloud images is already challenging because of the clouds' non-rigid structure and size, and the lower and less stable illumination of the night sky increases the difficulty. Nonetheless, nighttime cloud imaging is essential in certain applications, such as continuous weather analysis and satellite communication. In this paper, we propose a superpixel-based method to segment nighttime sky/cloud images. We also release the first nighttime sky/cloud image segmentation database to the research community. The experimental results show the efficacy of our proposed algorithm for nighttime images.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/ICIP.2017.8296300
2017 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Superpixels,nighttime cloud segmentation,sky imagers,WAHRSIS,SWINSEG
Conference
abs/1705.10583
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1522-4880
978-1-5090-2176-5
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
6
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Soumyabrata Dev16213.94
Florian M. Savoy2224.62
Yee Hui Lee3103.78
Stefan Winkler421621.60