A New Skeleton Feature Extraction Method for Terrain Model Using Profile Recognition and Morphological Simplification

Huijie Zhang, Zhiqiang Ma, Yaxin Liu, Xinting He and Yun Ma

Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2013, vol. 2013, 1-16

Abstract:

It is always difficul to reserve rings and main truck lines in the real engineering of feature extraction for terrain model. In this paper, a new skeleton feature extraction method is proposed to solve these problems, which put forward a simplification algorithm based on morphological theory to eliminate the noise points of the target points produced by classical profile recognition. As well all know, noise point is the key factor to influence the accuracy and efficiency of feature extraction. Our method connected the optimized feature points subset after morphological simplification; therefore, the efficiency of ring process and pruning has been improved markedly, and the accuracy has been enhanced without the negative effect of noisy points. An outbranching concept is defined, and the related algorithms are proposed to extract sufficient long trucks, which is capable of being consistent with real terrain skeleton. All of algorithms are conducted on many real experimental data, including GTOPO30 and benchmark data provided by PPA to verify the performance and accuracy of our method. The results showed that our method precedes PPA as a whole.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1155/2013/523729

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