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Segmentation and edge regulation are studied deeply to extract buildings from DSM data produced in this paper. Building segmentation is the first step to extract buildings, and a new segmentation method-adaptive iterative segmentation considering ratio mean square-is proposed to extract the contour of buildings effectively. A sub-image (such as 50×50 pixels) of the image is processed in sequence, the average gray level and its ratio mean square are calculated first, then threshold of the sub-image is selected by using iterative threshold segmentation. The current pixel is segmented according to the threshold, the average gray level and the ratio mean square of the sub-image. The edge points of the building are grouped according to the azimuth of neighbor points, and then the optimal azimuth of the points that belong to the same group can be calculated by using line interpolation.
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Project supcorted by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No 40201035)
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Hongjian, Y., Shukai, L. Building extraction from DSM acquired by airborne 3D image. Geo-spat. Inf. Sci. 6, 25–31 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02826889
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02826889