Adaptive lattices on the unit sphere: application to remote sensing

  • Authors:
  • Jean Serra

  • Affiliations:
  • Université Paris-Est, Laboratoire d'Informatique Gaspard Monge, Equipe A3SI, ESIEE Paris, France

  • Venue:
  • ICIP'09 Proceedings of the 16th IEEE international conference on Image processing
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The aim of the study is to structure multivariate data in cylindrical polar representation, in order to segment them by composing the Rn luminance and hue partitions accouding to that of the saturation. Remote sensing applications are in mind. This goal requires to equip with a total ordering the unit sphere in Rn, where the hue is ddistributed. The proposed orders, and the subsequent lattices, do not depend on absolute coordinates, but are adapted either to the whole image under study, or to the neighbouhoods necessary for processing the image. They are obtained by choosing a few maxima on the distribution of the spherical coordinates of the image. and by taking as new variables the infima of the distances to these various maxima. The case of four dimensions, usual when dealing with the principal components in remote sensing, is treated in detail. A comparison of the results in various dimentions is performed on a multispectral aerial image of the university of Pavia.