ROBUST SKYLINE EXTRACTION ALGORITHM FOR MOUNTAINOUS IMAGES

Sung Woo Yang, Ihn Cheol Kim, Jin Soo Kim

2007

Abstract

Skyline extraction in mountainous images which has been used for navigation of vehicles or micro unmanned air vehicles is very hard to implement because of the complexity of skyline shapes, occlusions by environments, difficulties to detect precise edges and noises in an image. In spite of these difficulties, skyline extraction is a very important theme that can be applied to the various fields of unmanned vehicles applications. In this paper, we developed a robust skyline extraction algorithm using two-scale canny edge images, topological information and location of the skyline in an image. Two-scale canny edge images are composed of High Scale Canny edge image that satisfies good localization criterion and Low Scale Canny edge image that satisfies good detection criterion. By applying each image to the proper steps of the algorithm, we could obtain good performance to extract skyline in images under complex environments. The performance of the proposed algorithm is proved by experimental results using various images and compared with an existing method.

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in Harvard Style

Woo Yang S., Cheol Kim I. and Soo Kim J. (2007). ROBUST SKYLINE EXTRACTION ALGORITHM FOR MOUNTAINOUS IMAGES . In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, ISBN 978-972-8865-73-3, pages 253-257. DOI: 10.5220/0002041602530257


in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp07,
author={Sung Woo Yang and Ihn Cheol Kim and Jin Soo Kim},
title={ROBUST SKYLINE EXTRACTION ALGORITHM FOR MOUNTAINOUS IMAGES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP,},
year={2007},
pages={253-257},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002041602530257},
isbn={978-972-8865-73-3},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP,
TI - ROBUST SKYLINE EXTRACTION ALGORITHM FOR MOUNTAINOUS IMAGES
SN - 978-972-8865-73-3
AU - Woo Yang S.
AU - Cheol Kim I.
AU - Soo Kim J.
PY - 2007
SP - 253
EP - 257
DO - 10.5220/0002041602530257