- Title
- A method for cityscape analysis by determining the fractal dimension of its skyline
- Creator
- Chalup, Stephan K.; Henderson, Naomi; Ostwald, Michael J.; Wiklendt, Lukasz
- Relation
- 42nd Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Architectural Science Association. ANZAScA 2008: Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Architectural Science Association (Newcastle, NSW 26-28 November, 2008) p. 337-344
- Relation
- http://www.newcastle.edu.au/conference/anzasca2008
- Publisher
- University of Newcastle, School of Architecture and Built Environment
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2008
- Description
- In this paper we describe an approach for semi-automated architectural analysis of a cityscape. The approach is based on the calculation of the fractal dimension of the cityscape’s skyline. The basic software system consists of an intensity based skyline extraction module combined with a box-counting approach to calculate the fractal dimension of the skyline. For images where obstacles such as power-lines, vertical poles or cranes interrupt the skyline a variation of this approach was developed. The paper describes the methods involved and presents three pilot experiments which indicate that: 1) If trees intersect the skyline they can change its fractal dimension; 2) The method has potential to distinguish characteristic skylines from different types of cities; 3) It can be a sensitive process to determine the best fit skyline in the image of a cityscape. The new method proposes to control this process by using the local minima of the skyline’s fractal dimension which is interpreted as a function of the image’s intensity cut-off values.
- Subject
- sky segmentation; skyline; fractal dimension; image processing
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/37944
- Identifier
- uon:4274
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780980503500
- Language
- eng
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