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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-4713-2019
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-4713-2019
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Research article
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04 Sep 2019
Research article |
| 04 Sep 2019
| 04 Sep 2019
Diurnal and nocturnal cloud segmentation of all-sky imager (ASI) images using enhancement fully convolutional networks
Chaojun Shi
School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Hebei University of
Technology, Tianjin, 300401, China
Yatong Zhou
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Hebei University of
Technology, Tianjin, 300401, China
Bo Qiu
School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Hebei University of
Technology, Tianjin, 300401, China
Jingfei He
School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Hebei University of
Technology, Tianjin, 300401, China
Mu Ding
School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Hebei University of
Technology, Tianjin, 300401, China
Shiya Wei
School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Hebei University of
Technology, Tianjin, 300401, China
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Short summary
Cloud segmentation plays a very important role in astronomical observatory site selection. At present, few researchers segment cloud in nocturnal all-sky imager (ASI) images. We propose a new automatic cloud segmentation algorithm to segment cloud pixels from diurnal and nocturnal ASI images called an enhancement fully convolutional network (EFCN). Experiments showed that the proposed EFCN was much more accurate in cloud segmentation for diurnal and nocturnal ASI images.
Cloud segmentation plays a very important role in astronomical observatory site selection. At...
