Urban Zoning Using Higher-Order Markov Random Fields on Multi-View Imagery Data

Tian Feng, Quang-Trung Truong, Duc Thanh Nguyen, Jing Yu Koh, Lap-Fai Yu, Alexander Binder, Sai-Kit Yeung; Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2018, pp. 614-630

Abstract


Urban zoning enables various applications in land use analysis and urban planning. As cities evolve, it is important to constantly update the zoning maps of cities to reflect urban pattern changes. This paper proposes a method for automatic urban zoning using higher-order Markov random fields (HO-MRF) built on multi-view imagery data including street-view photos and top-view satellite images. In the proposed HO-MRF, top-view satellite data is segmented via a multi-scale deep convolutional neural network (MS-CNN) and used in lower-order potentials. Street-view data with geo-tagged information is augmented in higher-order potentials. Various feature types for classifying street-view images were also investigated in our work. We evaluated the proposed method on a number of famous metropolises and provided in-depth analysis on technical issues.

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@InProceedings{Feng_2018_ECCV,
author = {Feng, Tian and Truong, Quang-Trung and Nguyen, Duc Thanh and Koh, Jing Yu and Yu, Lap-Fai and Binder, Alexander and Yeung, Sai-Kit},
title = {Urban Zoning Using Higher-Order Markov Random Fields on Multi-View Imagery Data},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)},
month = {September},
year = {2018}
}