Remote Sensing

Remote Sensing is the research area in which earth's surface is studied, usually using the reflectance spectrum of the sun. Vision Lab has built expertise in the processing and analysis of multispectral and hyperspectral remote sensing images. Topics of research include the development of techniques for image denoising, restoration, fusion, segmentation, classification and spectral unmixing. Main application domains are vegetation monitoring for which we collaborate with the Teleprocessing group of VITO (Flemish Institute for Technological Research).

Journal publications

2009

Y. Zhang, De Backer, S., and Scheunders, P., “Noise-resistant wavelet-based Bayesian fusion of multispectral and hyperspectral images”, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 47, pp. 3834-3843, 2009.
K. Hufkens, Scheunders, P., and Ceulemans, R., “Validation of the sigmoid wave curve fitting algorithm on a forest-tundra ecotone in the Northwest Territories, Canada”, Ecological Informatics, vol. 4, pp. 1-7, 2009.
A. Duijster, Scheunders, P., and De Backer, S., “Wavelet-Based EM Algorithm for Multispectral-Image Restoration”, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 47, pp. 3892-3898, 2009.

2008

S. De Backer, Pizurica, A., Huysmans, B., Philips, W., and Scheunders, P., “Denoising of Multicomponent Images Using Wavelet Least-Squares Estimators”, Image and Vision Computing, vol. 26, pp. 1038-1051, 2008.
K. Hufkens, Ceulemans, R., and Scheunders, P., “Estimating the ecotone width in patchy ecotones using a sigmoid wave approach”, Ecological Informatics, vol. 3, pp. 97-104, 2008.
P. Kempeneers, Zarco-Tejada, P. J., North, P. R. J., De Backer, S., Delalieux, S., Sepulcre-Canto, G., Morales, F., van Aardt, J., Sagardoy, R., Coppin, P., and Scheunders, P., “Model inversion for chlorophyll estimation in open canopies from hyperspectral imagery”, International Journal of Remote Sensing, vol. 29, pp. 5093-5111, 2008.

2007

P. Scheunders and De Backer, S., “Wavelet denoising of multicomponent images, using Gaussian Scale Mixture models and a noise-free image as priors”, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 16, pp. 1865-1872, 2007.

2005

S. De Backer, Kempeneers, P., Debruyn, W., and Scheunders, P., “A Band Selection Technique for Spectral Classification”, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, vol. 2, pp. 319-323, 2005.
P. Kempeneers, De Backer, S., Debruyn, W., and Scheunders, P., “Generic Wavelet-Based Hyperspectral Classification Applied to Vegetation Stress Detection”, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 43, pp. 610-614, 2005.

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