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방사형 영역 분할법에 의한 자연영상에서의 보도 경계선 검출

Detection of Pavement Borderline in Natural Scene using Radial Region Split for Visually Impaired Person

  • 투고 : 2012.03.16
  • 심사 : 2012.04.30
  • 발행 : 2012.07.31

초록

본 논문에서는 보행자에 장착된 카메라로부터 입력된 자연영상에서 외부 환경 변화에 강인한 적응적인 보도 경계선 검출 기법을 제안한다. 제안하는 방법은 두 단계로 구성되어 안정적으로 보도 영역을 분할한다. 첫 번째 단계에서는 복잡한 외부 환경에 강인하도록 적응적인 임계치를 이용하는 에지 검출 방법을 통해 소실선과 소실점을 추출한다. 두 번째 단계에서는 소실점에 기반하는 VRay를 이용한 방사형 영역 분할법을 통해 보도의 경계선을 검출한다. 성능평가를 위해서는제안된 에지 검출 방법과 케니 에지 검출기와의 비교를통해 제안된 방법이 외부 환경의 조명조건 변화에 강건함을 확인하였으며, VRay의 가상 광선의 길이 변화에 따른 영역분할 결과를 비교하여 방사형 영역 분할법의 타당성을 입증하였다.

This paper proposes an efficient method that helps a visually impaired person to detect a pavement borderline. A pedestrian is equipped with a camera so that the front view of a natural scene is captured. Our approach analyzes the captured image and detects the borderline of a pavement in a very robust manner. Our approach performs the task in two steps. In a first step, our approach detects a vanishing point and vanishing lines by applying an edge operator. The edge operator is designed to take a threshold value adaptively so that it can handle a dynamic environment robustly. The second step is to determine the borderlines of a pavement based on vanishing lines detected in the first step. It analyzes the vanishing lines to form VRays that confines the pavement only. The VRays segments out the pavement region in a radial manner. We compared our approach against Canny edge detector. Experimental results show that our approach detects borderlines of a pavement very accurately in various situations.

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