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Crater Detection by a Boosting Approach

Inst. Super. Tecnico, Lisbon
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters (impact factor: 1.56). 02/2009; DOI:10.1109/LGRS.2008.2006004 pp.127 - 131
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ABSTRACT An approach to automatically detect impact craters on planetary surfaces is presented in this letter. It is built up from a boosting algorithm proposed by Viola and Jones (2004) whose simplicity combined with an original learning strategy leads to a fast and robust process with consistent results. The approach is validated with image data sets from Mars surface captured by the Mars Orbiter Camera onboard Mars Global Surveyor probe.

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Keywords

boosting algorithm
 
consistent results
 
fast
 
image data sets
 
Mars Orbiter Camera onboard Mars Global Surveyor probe
 
Mars surface
 
planetary surfaces