An edge-region cooperative multi-agent approach for buildings extraction

This paper presents a new approach for automatic building detection in very high resolution satellite images. The proposed method is a cooperative multi-agent approach between both an edge and region approach. In the pretreatment step, a supervisor agent finds a building's corner using Harris detector. Starting from these points, a cooperation process is used to extract buildings. Experiments are done on images of Strasbourg city taken by Quickbird.

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