Paper Title :Efficient Horizon Detection On Complex Sea For Sea Surveillance

Author :Yan Yan, Bok-Suk Shin, Xiaozhengmou, Wei Mou, Han Wang

Article Citation :Yan Yan ,Bok-Suk Shin ,Xiaozhengmou ,Wei Mou ,Han Wang , (2015 ) " Efficient Horizon Detection On Complex Sea For Sea Surveillance " , International Journal of Electrical, Electronics and Data Communication (IJEEDC) , pp. 49-52, Volume-3,Issue-12

Abstract : Obstacle detection is one of the key features of an unmanned surface vehicle (USV). Research on real time obstacle detection gains momentum these days. Horizon detection is one of the fundamental support factors when performing real-time obstacle detection. Precise detection helps to improve the efficiency and accuracy of obstacle detection becausethis eliminates irrelevant areas as much as possible. In this paper, three different algorithms are applied on three different sequences of images that were taken on the open sea. This paper focuses on the success rate and time efficiency of horizon detection. By applying four different algorithms, includingProbabilistic Hough Transform, Least Square Optimization, Random Sample Consensus (RANSAC) and Generic line detection method, we extract the horizon from the images. The experimental results show that different methodshave different time efficiency and accuracy for horizon detection. By comparing the advantages and disadvantages of each algorithm, it is possible to determine which algorithm is more suitable under given constraints. Index Terms- Horizon detection, Image rectification, Sea surface estimation, Sea surveillance.

Type : Research paper

Published : Volume-3,Issue-12

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