Scenic beauty estimation of forestry images

The aesthetic quality of forests in the US is actively managed by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service. To support this mission, several forest lands in the southern US have been carefully photographed and analyzed for factors contributing to scenic content. We describe...

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Published inProceedings IEEE SOUTHEASTCON '97. 'Engineering the New Century' pp. 337 - 339
Main Authors Kalidindi, N., Le, A., Picone, J., Zheng, L., Yaqin, H., Rudis, V.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 1997
Subjects
Agricultural engineering
Engineering management
Forestry
Frequency estimation
Histograms
Humans
Image databases
Quality management
Resource management
US Department of Agriculture
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Summary:The aesthetic quality of forests in the US is actively managed by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service. To support this mission, several forest lands in the southern US have been carefully photographed and analyzed for factors contributing to scenic content. We describe algorithms that we developed to automatically assess the scenic quality of images. The goal of the project was to develop objective techniques to determine the scenic beauty rating of the image and correlate the rating to the subjective ratings available from human experimentation. The evaluation database that was developed for this task is also described.
ISBN:0780338448
9780780338449
DOI:10.1109/SECON.1997.598707