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DOIONLINE NO - IJEEDC-IRAJ-DOIONLINE-3496

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International Journal of Electrical, Electronics and Data Communication (IJEEDC)-IJEEDC
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Issue
Volume-3,Issue-12  ( Dec, 2015 )
Paper Title
Efficient Horizon Detection On Complex Sea For Sea Surveillance
Author Name
Yan Yan, Bok-Suk Shin, Xiaozhengmou, Wei Mou, Han Wang
Affilition
School Of Electrical And Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Pages
49-52
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.
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