Title
Fast cloud image segmentation with superpixel analysis based convolutional networks
Abstract
Due to the various noises, the cloud image segmentation becomes a big challenge for atmosphere prediction. CNN is capable of learning discriminative features from complex data, but this may be quite time-consuming in pixel-level segmentation problems. In this paper we propose superpixel analysis based CNN (SP-CNN) for high efficient cloud image segmentation. SP-CNN employs image over-segmentation of superpixels as basic entities to preserve local consistency. SP-CNN takes the image patches centered at representative pixels in every superpixel as input, and all superpixels are classified as cloud or non-cloud part by voting of the representative pixels. It greatly reduces the computational burden on CNN learning. In order to avoid the ambiguity from superpixel boundaries, SP-CNN selects the representative pixels uniformly from the eroded superpixels. Experimental analysis demonstrates that SP-CNN guarantees both the effectiveness and efficiency in cloud segmentation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/IWSSIP.2017.7965591
2017 International Conference on Systems, Signals and Image Processing (IWSSIP)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Cloud image,Superpixel analysis,Convolutional neural networks,Cloud segmentation
Computer vision,Local consistency,Scale-space segmentation,Pattern recognition,Segmentation,Computer science,Segmentation-based object categorization,Image segmentation,Pixel,Artificial intelligence,Discriminative model,Cloud computing
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2157-8672
978-1-5090-6345-1
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
10
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lifang Wu18222.35
Jiaoyu He210.37
Meng Jian3598.07
Jianan Zhang410.37
Yunzhen Zou510.37