Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction 1
1.1 State-of-the-art road extraction methods 4
1.2 Book outline 9
Chapter 2 An Integrated Method for Road Extraction 11
2.1 Introduction 11
2.2 The proposed method 11
2.3 Experimental evaluation 24
2.4 Summary 43
Chapter 3 The Object-Based Method for Road Extraction 45
3.1 Introduction 45
3.2 The proposed methodology 45
3.3 Experimental results 55
3.4 Summary 62
Chapter 4 Fusion of Multiple Road Extraction Results Using Geometric
Characteristics 64
4.1 Introduction 64
4.2 The proposed methodology 64
4.3 Experimental results 77
4.4 Summary 86
Chapter 5 Accurate Road Centerline Extraction 89
5.1 Introduction 89
5.2 Feature point based road centerline extraction 90
5.3 Centerline extraction without spatial connection constraints 96
5.4 Experiment and results 101
5.5 Summary 110
Chapter 6 Road Gap Connection 111
6.1 Introduction 111
6.2 The methodology 111
6.3 Experiment and results 115
6.4 Summary 120
Chapter 7 Conclusion and Recommendation 122
7.1 Summary 122
7.2 Future research 123
Bibliography 125
Appendix 134