Journal of Applied Sciences ›› 2019, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (3): 301-312.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.0255-8297.2019.03.001

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Small Harbor Detection Based on PLSA and BoW in High Resolution Remotely Sensed Imagery

BI Qi1, TONG Xin2, ZHANG Jiyong3, XU Kai4, ZHANG Han1, QIN Kun1   

  1. 1. School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China;
    2. Zhongnan Branch, Beijing North-Start Digital Remote Sensing Technology Co. Ltd., Wuhan 430070, China;
    3. State Grid Economic and Technical Research Institute Co. Ltd., Beijing 102209, China;
    4. Faculty of Information Engineering, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430070, China
  • Received:2018-03-03 Revised:2018-07-15 Online:2019-05-31 Published:2019-05-31

Abstract: Remotely sensed high resolution imaging is an effective way to monitor small harbors along coastlines. Harbors vary a lot in features and are usually difficult to describe. This paper studies a harbor detection method based on probabilistic latent semantic analysis (PLSA) and bag of words (BoW). Firstly, coastlines are extracted to shrink searching areas. Then grey level histogram, normalized differential water index and fractal dimension features are introduced to PLSA model to generate feature description sets. Eigenvectors of speeded up robust features are introduced to BoW model to generate visual dictionary. Finally, after collecting samples of small harbors, support vector machine (SVM) classifiers are trained based on the above features. Based on the trained classifier, small harbor detection is implemented based on 22 images. Experiments show that the proposed method reaches the best accuracy with relatively low time cost than single-feature models and single PLSA or BoW model.

Key words: high resolution remotely sensed imagery, small harbor detection, probabilistic latent semantic analysis (PLSA), bag of words (BoW), coastline extraction

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