The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences. Vol. XXXVII. Part B4. Beijing 2008 
284 
ACKNOLEDGEMENT 
We like to thank all members of the DeSecure team for their 
support in pushing the project forward and preparing the 
example data, and especially M. Butenuth and D. Frey for 
providing the extraction results of tracking and network snakes. 
Thanks go also to EuroSDR, in particular Helmut Mayer, who 
organized the test of automatic road extraction approaches. 
REFERENCES 
Bacher, U. & Mayer, H., 2004, Automatic road extraction from IRS satellite images 
in agricultural and desert areas. In International Archives of the Photogrammetry, 
Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 35 (B3), 1055-1060. 
Bacher, U. & Mayer, H., 2005, Automatic road extraction from multispectral high 
resolution satellite images. In: International Archives of the Photogrammetry, 
Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 36 (3AV24), 29-34. 
Baumgartner, A., Hinz, S..Wiedemann, C., 2002. Efficient Methods and Interfaces 
for Road Tracking. In: International Archives of Photogrammetry, Remote 
Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Vol. 34(3B), 28-31. 
Baumgartner, A., Steger, C., Mayer, H., Eckstein, W., Ebner, H., 1999. Automatic 
Road Extraction Based on Multi-Scale, Grouping, and Context. Photogrammetric 
Engineering and Remote Sensing 65 (7): 777-785. 
Butenuth, M., 2006, Segmentation of Imagery Using Network Snakes. In: Interna 
tional Archives of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sci 
ences 36-3, 1-6. 
Butenuth, M., 2007, Segmentation of Imagery Using Network Snakes. Photogram- 
metrie - Femerkundung - Geoinformation, 1/2007: 7-16 
Butenuth, M., 2008, Topology-preserving network snakes. In: International Ar 
chives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 
37-B3A. 
Clode, S., Rottensteiner, F., Kootsookos, P. and Zelniker E., 2007, Detection and 
vectorization of roads from LIDAR data, Photogrammetric Engineering & 
Remote Sensing, 73: 517-536. 
Dominger, P. & Nothegger, C., 2007, 3D segmentation of unstructured point clouds 
for building modeling. In International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote 
Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 35 (3/W49A), 191-196. 
Drauschke, M., Schuster, H.-F. and Forstner, W., 2006, Detectability of buildings in 
aerial images over scale-space. In International Archives of the Photogrammetry, 
Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 35 (3), 7-12. 
Durupt, M. & Taillandier, F., 2006, Automatic building reconstruction from a digital 
elevation model and cadastral data: An operational approach. In International 
Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information 
Sciences, 35 (3), 142-147. 
Fischler, M. A., Tenenbaum, J. M., Wolf, H. C., 1981. Detection of Roads and 
Linear Structures in Low-Resolution Aerial Imagery Using a Multisource 
Knowledge Integration Technique. Computer Graphics and Image Processing 15: 
201-223. 
Forberg, A., 2004, Generalization of 3D building data based on a scale-space 
approach, In: International Archives of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and 
Spatial Information Sciences, 35-B4, 194-199. 
Forberg, A., & Mayer, H., 2006, Simplification of 3D Building Data. Zeitschrift fur 
Vermessungswesen (131) 3, 148-152. 
Groch, W.-D., 1982. Extraction of Line Shaped Objects from Aerial Images Using a 
Special Operator to Analyse the Profiles of Functions. In: Computer Graphics and 
Image Processing, vol. 18: 347-358. 
Griin, A. & Li, H. (1997): Semi-Automatic Linear Feature Extraction by Dynamic 
Programming and LSB-Snakes. In: Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote 
Sensing, vol. 63(8): 985-995. 
Hebei, M. & Stilla, U., 2007, Automatic registration of laser point clouds of urban 
areas. In International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and 
Spatial Information Sciences, 36 (3/W49A), 13-18. 
Hedman, K., Hinz, S., Stilla, U., 2006, A Probabilistic Fusion Strategy Applied to 
Road Extraction from SAR Data. In: International Archives of Photogrammetry, 
Remote Sensing, and Spatial Information Sciences, Vol. 36-3, 55-60. 
Hedman, K., Hinz, S. and Stilla, U., 2007, Road extraction from SAR multi-aspect 
data supported by a statistical context-based fusion. In Proceedings of IEEE- 
ISPRS Workshop URBAN 2007, on CD. 
Hedman, K., Hinz, S. and Stilla, U., 2008, Evaluation of a statistical fusion 
approach developed for automatic road extraction from multi-view SAR images. 
In: Proceedings of IGARSS’08, Boston, USA (to appear). 
Heuwold, J., 2006, Verification of a methodology for the automatic scale-dependent 
adaptation of object models In International Archives of the Photogrammetry, 
Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 36(3), 173-17. 
Heuwold, J. & Pakzad, K.. 2006, Automatic scale-dependent adaptation of variable 
object models. In International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing 
and Spatial Information Sciences, 36 (W40), 65-70. 
Heuwold, J., Pakzad, K., Heipke, C., 2007, Scale behaviour prediction of image 
analysis models for 2D landscape objects. In International Archives of 
Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 36 
(3/W49A), 43-50. 
Hinz, S., 2004a Automatische Extraktion urbaner Straßennetze aus Luftbildern. PhD 
thesis, Deutsche Geodätische Kommission, C (580), Munich, Germany. 
Hinz, S., 2004b, Automatic road extraction in urban scenes - and beyond. In: 
International Archives of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial 
Information Sciences, 35, (B3), 349-354. 
Hinz S. & Wiedemann, C. 2004, Increasing efficiency of road extraction by self- 
diagnosis. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 70(12): 1457- 
1466. 
Hinz, S., & Baumgartner, A., 2003, Automatic Extraction of Urban Road Networks 
from Multi-View Aerial Imagery. In: ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and 
Remote Sensing, 58/1-2: 83 - 98. 
Kass, M., Witkin, A., Terzopoulos, D., 1988. Snakes: Active contour models. In: 
International Journal of Computer Vision, vol. 1: 321-331. 
Koch, W., Koller, J. and Ulmke, M., 2006, Ground target tracking and road map 
extraction. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 61 (3-4), pp. 
197-208 
Mayer, H., 1998. Automatische Objektextraktion aus digitalen Luftbildern. Habilita 
tion, Deutsche Geodätische Kommission, C (494), Munich, Germany. 
Mayer, H., Hinz, S., Bacher, U. and Baltsavias, E., 2006, A test of automatic road 
extraction approaches. In International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote 
Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 36 (3), 209-214. 
Mayer, H. & Steger, C. 1998, Scale-Space Events and Their Link to Abstraction for 
Road Extraction. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 53 (2): 
62-75 
McKeown, D., Denlinger, J., 1988. Cooperative Methods For Road Tracking In 
Aerial Imagery. In: Computer Vision and Pattem Recognition, 662-672. 
Mena, J. & Malpica, J., 2005. An automatic method for road extraction in rural and 
semi-urban areas starting from high resolution satellite imagery. Pattem 
Recognition Letters, 26, 1201-1220. 
Neuenschwander, W., Fua, P., Szekely, G., Kübler, O., 1995. From ziplock snakes 
to velcro surfaces. In: Griin, A., Kübler, O., Agoutis, P. (eds.), Automatic 
Extraction of Man-Made Objects from Aerial and Space Images, Birkhäuser 
Verlag, Basel, 1995, 105-114. 
Pless, R., 2006, Detecting roads in stabilized video with the spatio-temporal 
structure tensor. Geoinformatica, 10 (1): 39-56. 
dal Poz, A., Gyftakis, S., and Agouris, P., 2000. Semiautomatic road extraction: 
Comparison of methodologies and experiments. In: Proc. ASPRS 2000, , 
Washington, D.C., on CD 
Rehor, M. & Bähr, H.-P., 2006, Segmentation of damaged buildings from laser 
scanning data. In International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing 
and Spatial Information Sciences, 35 (3), 67-72. 
Rottensteiner, F., Trinder, J., Clode, S., Kubik, K., 2005. Using the Dempster 
Shafer method for the fusion of LIDAR data and multi-spectral images for build 
ing detection. Information Fusion 6 (4): 283-300. 
Rottensteiner, F. 2006, Consistent estimation of building parameters considering 
geometric regularities by soft constraints. In: International Archives of the 
Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 35 (3), 13- 
18. 
Schölderle, F. 2005, Praxistest eines Straßentrackers. Technical Report, PF 05-01, 
Remote Sensing Technology, TU Muenchen, Germany. 
Soergel, U. Thoennessen, U. Brenner, A. Stilla, U., 2006, High-resolution SAR 
data: new opportunities and challenges for the analysis of urban areas. Radar, So 
nar and Navigation, 153(3): 294-300. 
Tupin, F., Bloch, I., Maître, H., 1999, A first step toward automatic interpretaion of 
SAR images using evidential fusion of several structure detectors. IEEE Transac 
tions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 37(3): 1327-1343. 
Vosselman, G., de Knecht, J., 1995. Road tracing by profile matching and kalman 
filtering. In: Griin, A., Kübler, O., Agouris, P. (eds.), Automatic Extraction of 
Man-Made Objects from Aerial and Space Images, Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel, 
1995, 265-274. 
Wessel, 2006, Automatische Extraktion von Straßen aus SAR-Bilddaten. PhD 
thesis, Deutsche Geodätische Kommission, C (600), Munich, Germany. 
Wessel, B. & Hinz, S., 2004. Context-supported road extraction from SAR imagery: 
Transition from rural to built-up areas. Proceedings of EUSAR 2004, Ulm, Ger 
many, 399-402. 
Wiedemann C. & Hinz, S., 1999, Automatic extraction and evaluation of road 
networks from satellite imagery. In International Archives of Photogrammetry and 
Remote Sensing, 32 (3/2W5), 95-100, 
Zebedin, L., Klaus, A., Gruber, B. and Kamer, K., 2006, Facade reconstruction 
from aerial images by multi-view plane sweeping. In International Archives of the 
Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 35-3, 31-36. 
Zebedin, L., Klaus, A., Gruber, B. and Kamer, K., 2007, Facade reconstruction 
from aerial images by multi-view plane sweeping. Photogrammetrie - 
Femerkundung - Geoinformation, 1/07: 17-24. 
Zhang Q. & Couloigner L, 2006. Automated road network extraction from high 
resolution multi-spectral imagery. In ASPRS 2006 Annual Conference, Reno, 
Nevada, on CD. 
Zhou, J., Bischof, W. F., Caelli, T., 2005, Robust and Efficient Road Tracking in 
Aerial Images. In: International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing 
and Spatial Information Sciences, 35 (3/W24), 35-40. 
Ziems, M., Gerke, M., Heipke C., 2007, Automatic road extraction from remote 
sensing imagery incorporating prior information and colour segmentation, In 
International Archives of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial 
Information Sciences, 36 (3/W49A), 141-148.