Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories

Heli-Tele: Road Extraction from Helicopter Video

Citation:   Porikli, F.; Shao, J.; Maehara, H., "Heli-Tele: Road Extraction from Helicopter Video", IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applicaitons (MVA), May 2005 (MVA 2005)
MERL Report:  TR2005-041

We present a learning based road likelihood computation method that uses aerial imagery and fuses information from several weak features. Our method is automatic, robust, and computationally feasible at the same time. We use road likelihood to align a color helicopter image onto a given street map to find address of buildings visible in the image.

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