Overhead power line detection from UAV video images

2012 19th International Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice, M2VIP 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 74-79

  Yang, Tang Wen ^a   Yin, Hang ^a   Ruan, Qiu Qi ^a   Han, Jian Da ^b   Qi, Jun Tong ^b   Yong, Qing ^a   Wang, Zi Tong ^c   Sun, Zeng Qi ^c  

^a BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHENYANG INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Fuzzy C means Clustering algorithm; Hough Transform; image binarization; power line detection; UAV

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE THRESHOLDING; COMPLICATED TERRAIN; FUZZY C-MEANS CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; IMAGE BINARIZATION; OVERHEAD POWER LINES; POWER LINES; REAL TIME ALGORITHMS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE (UAVS);

BINARY IMAGES; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER VISION; ELECTRIC LINES; FUZZY CLUSTERING; HOUGH TRANSFORMS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 84876056619     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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