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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">ISPRS-Archives</journal-id>
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<journal-title>The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">ISPRS-Archives</abbrev-journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">2194-9034</issn>
<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/isprsarchives-XL-3-183-2014</article-id>
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<article-title>Morphological operation based dense houses extraction from DSM</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Li</surname>
<given-names>Y.</given-names>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Zhu</surname>
<given-names>L.</given-names>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Tachibana</surname>
<given-names>K.</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Shimamura</surname>
<given-names>H.</given-names>
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<sup>2</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Geographic Information Science and Technology International Institute for Earth System Science, Nanjing University, 210000 Nanjing Jiangsu, China</addr-line>
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<label>2</label>
<addr-line>PASCO corporation Japan, 1-1-2 Higashiyama, Megulo-ku Tokyo 153-0043, Japan</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>11</day>
<month>08</month>
<year>2014</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>XL-3</volume>
<fpage>183</fpage>
<lpage>189</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2014 Y. Li et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2014</copyright-year>
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<p>This paper presents a method of reshaping and extraction of markers and masks of the dense houses from the DSM based on
mathematical morphology (MM). Houses in a digital surface model (DSM) are almost joined together in high-density housing areas,
and most segmentation methods cannot completely separate them. We propose to label the markers of the buildings firstly and
segment them into masks by watershed then. To avoid detecting more than one marker for a house or no marker at all due to its higher
neighbour, the DSM is morphologically reshaped. It is carried out by a MM operation using the certain disk shape SE of the similar
size to the houses. The sizes of the houses need to be estimated before reshaping. A granulometry generated by
&lt;i&gt;opening-by-reconstruction&lt;/i&gt; to the NDSM is proposed to detect the scales of the off-terrain objects. It is a histogram of the global
volume of the top hats of the convex objects in the continuous scales. The obvious step change in the profile means that there are many
objects of similar sizes occur at this scale. In reshaping procedure, the slices of the object are derived by morphological filtering at the
detected continuous scales and reconstructed in pile as the dome. The markers are detected on the basis of the domes.</p>
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