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Research article
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01 Mar 2016
Research article |
| 01 Mar 2016
From pixels to patches: a cloud classification method based on a bag of micro-structures
Qingyong Li
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Beijing Key Lab of Transportation Data Analysis and Mining, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, 100044, China
Zhen Zhang
Beijing Key Lab of Transportation Data Analysis and Mining, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, 100044, China
Weitao Lu
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, 100081, China
Jun Yang
State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, 100081, China
Ying Ma
State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, 100081, China
Wen Yao
State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, 100081, China
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Short summary
This paper proposes a new cloud classification method, named bag of micro-structures (BoMS), for whole-sky imagers. BoMS treats an all-sky image as a collection of micro-structures mapped from image patches, rather than a collection of pixels. BoMS identifies five different sky conditions: cirriform, cumuliform, stratiform, clear sky, and mixed cloudiness (often appearing in all-sky images but seldom addressed in the literature). The performance of BoMS overperforms those of traditional methods.
This paper proposes a new cloud classification method, named bag of micro-structures (BoMS), for...
