Knowledge-based power line detection for UAV surveillance and inspection systems

2008 23rd International Conference Image and Vision Computing New Zealand, IVCNZ

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Li, Zhengrong ^a,b   Liu, Yuee ^a   Hayward, Ross ^a   Zhang, Jinglan ^a   Cai, Jinhai ^b  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b Andrew Haywood is with the Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information   (Australia)

Author keywords

Hough transform; K means clustering; PCNN; Power line detection; UAV

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC LINES; HOUGH TRANSFORMS; IMAGE SENSORS; INSPECTION; INSPECTION EQUIPMENT; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; NAVIGATION; OPTICAL SENSORS; REMOTE SENSING; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS;

BACKGROUND NOISE; ELECTRICAL POWER; INSPECTION SYSTEMS; K-MEANS CLUSTERING; OPTICAL REMOTE SENSORS; PCNN; POWER LINE DETECTION; REAL IMAGE DATUM; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS; STRAIGHT LINES; UAV; UAV PLATFORMS; UAV SURVEILLANCES; VISION-BASED;

TELECOMMUNICATION LINES;

EID: 63049133127     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IVCNZ.2008.4762118     Document Type: Conference Paper

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