Since the details in quasi-homogeneous region will be degraded from a conventional global image enhancement methods such as histogram equalization. This degradation causes from the saturation of the gray levels in equalization process. Then the local histogram equalization for each quasi-homogeneous region will be used in order to improve the details in the regions. To obtain the quasi-homogeneous regions the image can be segmented by using a watershed transform. The watershed transform is based on mathematical morphology; therefore the segmented regions can be effectively separated meaningful. Two adjacent regions in images which almost similar in gray levels can be separted by the watershed transform. In the color image enhancement three spectral bands are enhanced independently. Then all the three bands are assigned to each processed image in order to produce a color composite image. By the proposed algorithm the result images show the better perception on image details. Therefore the high efficiency of image classification can be obtained by using this color image.

The objective of this research is to proposed a semi-automatic method for mapping electric poles using the structure from motion technique or SFM. First an epipolar geometry for each image pair is estimated. Then the 3D structures are obtained using incremental SFM technique which will give us both 3D point cloud of the study area and camera parameters. Also vertical 2D lines are extracted from the input images. These 2D lines and the 3D structures are then integreated for estimating the positions of electric pole in 3D space. Finally these 3D electric poles are then geo-registered by estimating 3D rigid transformation from embeded coordinates in the input images.