A Real-Time Sea-Sky-Line Detection Method under Complicated Sea-Sky Background

Abstract:

A real-time sea-sky-line detection method under complicated sea-sky background is presented. Firstly, a black-white template is constructed and used for fast correlation matching in several searching regions which are predefined in input image, position of maximal correlation coefficient in each predefined region is hunt out, and coordinates of several candidate sea-sky-line points are made certain according to the position. Then, RANSAC algorithm is applied to preserve interior points which are really on the sea-sky-line and eliminate exterior points which are not. Finally, line parameters of the sea-sky-line can be gained by applying least squares line fitting for all interior points. The pixels of several regions in the image instead of the whole image need to be considered, so computational cost can be reduced dramatically. The experimental results show that the proposed method can detect out sea-sky-line under complicated sea-sky background effectively and has many advantages such as strong robustness and speedy calculation.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 182-183)
• Pages: 1826-1831
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.182-183.1826
• Online since: June 2012
• Authors: Yang Gui, Xiao Hu Zhang, Yang Shang, Kun Peng Wang
• Keywords: Correlation, RANSAC, Robustness, Sea-Sky-Line Detection

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