YOLOv3-Based Matching Approach for Roof Region Detection from Drone Images

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Title: YOLOv3-Based Matching Approach for Roof Region Detection from Drone Images
Authors: Chia-Cheng Yeh, Yang-Lang Chang, Mohammad Alkhaleefah, Pai-Hui Hsu, Weiyong Eng, Voon-Chet Koo, Bormin Huang, Lena Chang
Source: Remote Sensing, Vol 13, Iss 1, p 127 (2021)
Publisher Information: MDPI AG, 2021.
Publication Year: 2021
Collection: LCC:Science
Subject Terms: image matching, deep learning, YOLOv3, roof region detection, drone images, high-performance computing, Science
More Details: Due to the large data volume, the UAV image stitching and matching suffers from high computational cost. The traditional feature extraction algorithms—such as Scale-Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT), Speeded Up Robust Features (SURF), and Oriented FAST Rotated BRIEF (ORB)—require heavy computation to extract and describe features in high-resolution UAV images. To overcome this issue, You Only Look Once version 3 (YOLOv3) combined with the traditional feature point matching algorithms is utilized to extract descriptive features from the drone dataset of residential areas for roof detection. Unlike the traditional feature extraction algorithms, YOLOv3 performs the feature extraction solely on the proposed candidate regions instead of the entire image, thus the complexity of the image matching is reduced significantly. Then, all the extracted features are fed into Structural Similarity Index Measure (SSIM) to identify the corresponding roof region pair between consecutive image sequences. In addition, the candidate corresponding roof pair by our architecture serves as the coarse matching region pair and limits the search range of features matching to only the detected roof region. This further improves the feature matching consistency and reduces the chances of wrong feature matching. Analytical results show that the proposed method is 13× faster than the traditional image matching methods with comparable performance.
Document Type: article
File Description: electronic resource
Language: English
ISSN: 2072-4292
Relation: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/13/1/127; https://doaj.org/toc/2072-4292
DOI: 10.3390/rs13010127
Access URL: https://doaj.org/article/6477b4f6972b477fa8b3e05c4e7d67a2
Accession Number: edsdoj.6477b4f6972b477fa8b3e05c4e7d67a2
Database: Directory of Open Access Journals
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ISSN:20724292
DOI:10.3390/rs13010127
Published in:Remote Sensing
Language:English