Object Detection from High Resolution Satellite Image by Using Genetic Algorithms

Many researchers conducted the effort for improving the classification accuracy of satellite image. Most of the study has used optical spectrum information of each pixel for image classification. By applying this method for high resolution satellite image, number of class becomes increase. This situation is remarkable for house, because the roof of house has variety of many colors. Even if the classification is carried out for many classes, roof color information of each house is not necessary. Most of the case, we need the information that object is house or not. In this study, we propose the method for detecting the object by using Genetic Algorithms (GA). Aircraft was selected as object. It is easy for this object to detect in the airport. An aircraft was taken as a template. Object image was taken from QuickBird. Target image includes an aircraft and Haneda Airport. Chromosome has four or five parameters which are composed of number of template, position (x,y), rotation angle, rate of enlarge. Good results were obtained in the experiment.