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A statistical model of recreational trails.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	A statistical model of recreational trails./
Author:	Predoehl, Andrew.
Description:	1 online resource (118 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-10(E), Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International77-10B(E).
Subject:	Computer science. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9781339723501

A statistical model of recreational trails.
Predoehl, Andrew.

A statistical model of recreational trails. - 1 online resource (118 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-10(E), Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Arizona, 2016.

Includes bibliographical references

We present a statistical model of recreational trails, and a method to infer trail routes from geophysical data, namely aerial imagery and terrain elevation. We learn a set of textures (textons) that characterize the imagery, and use the textons to segment each image into super-pixels. We also model each texton's probability of generating trail pixels, and the direction of such trails. From terrain elevation, we model the magnitude and direction of terrain gradient on-trail and off-trail. These models lead to a likelihood function for image and elevation. Consistent with Bayesian reasoning, we combine the likelihood with a prior model of trail length and smoothness, yielding a posterior distribution for trails, given an image. We search for good values of this posterior using both a novel stochastic variation of Dijkstra's algorithm, and an MCMC-inspired sampler. Our experiments, on trail images and groundtruth collected in the western continental USA, show substantial improvement over those of the previous best trail-finding methods.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9781339723501Subjects--Topical Terms:

573171
Computer science.
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554714
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