Spectral–Spatial Classification and Shape Features for Urban Road Centerline Extraction

This letter presents a two-step method for urban main road extraction from high-resolution remotely sensed imagery by integrating spectral-spatial classification and shape features. In the first step, spectral-spatial classification segments the imagery into two classes, i.e., the road class and the nonroad class, using path openings and closings. The local homogeneity of the gray values obtained by local Geary's C is then fused with the road class. In the second step, the road class is refined by using shape features. The experimental results indicated that the proposed method was able to achieve a comparatively good performance in urban main road extraction.

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