Automatic Method for Extraction of Complex Road Intersection Points From High-Resolution Remote Sensing Images Based on Fuzzy Inference

Abstract

Automatic extracting road intersection points is essential for applications such as data registration between vector data and remote sensing images, aircraft-assisted navigation. However, at a large scale, it is difficult to quickly and accurately extract road intersection points due to the problems caused by complex structures, geometric texture noise interference. In this context, taking OpenStreetMap (OSM) data as priori knowledge, we propose a method for automatic extraction of complex road intersection points based on fuzzy inference. First, OSM data are analyzed to obtain structural information of intersection points. Local search areas are built around the intersection points. Second, within the local search area, the candidate intersection point set are generated. Meanwhile the input image is segmented using multiresolution segmentation; then we establish a fuzzy rule to infer the road area from the segmentation result. The fuzzy indexes and rules are established for the candidate intersection point set to deduce the road intersection area. Finally, based on the results of the previous step, the road intersection points are extracted based on the line segment constraint, structure matching, and linkage equation. Three sets of high-resolution remote sensing images were used to verify the feasibility of the method. We demonstrate that the correctness and positioning accuracy of this method are superior to those of other methods through contrastive analysis.

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