Image processing of drone-captured image for asset management

A system comprising:

• a memory comprising instructions;
• and
• one or more computer processors, wherein the instructions, when executed by the one or more computer processors, cause the system to perform operations comprising:
• identifying an approximate location of an asset in an image;
• defining parameters of a mask associated with the asset in the image;
• performing a global optimization method to determine values for the parameters to obtain an optimized mask that corresponds to the asset in the image;
• extracting pixels of the image using the optimized mask to obtain asset pixels;
• performing damage analysis for the asset based on the extracted pixels;
• and
• presenting results of the damage analysis on a display.

A tangible machine-readable storage medium including instructions that, when executed by a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:

• identifying an approximate location of an asset in an image;
• defining parameters of a mask associated with the asset in the image;
• performing a global optimization method to determine values for the parameters to obtain an optimized mask that corresponds to the asset in the image;
• extracting pixels of the image using the optimized mask to obtain asset pixels;
• performing damage analysis for the asset based on the extracted pixels;
• and
• presenting results of the damage analysis on a display.