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A Scale Invariant Object Detection Algorithm Using Wavelet Transform in Sea Environment

해양 환경에서 웨이블렛 변환을 이용한 크기 변화에 무관한 물표 탐지 알고리즘

  • Received : 2013.03.31
  • Accepted : 2013.05.11
  • Published : 2013.06.25
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Abstract

In this paper, we propose an algorithm to detect scale invariant object from IR image obtained in the sea environment. We create horizontal edge (HL), vertical edge (LH), diagonal edge (HH) of images through 2-D discrete Haar wavelet transform (DHWT) technique after noise reduction using morphology operations. Considering the sea environment, Gaussian blurring to the horizontal and vertical edge images at each level of wavelet is performed and then saliency map is generated by multiplying the blurred horizontal and vertical edges and combining into one image. Then we extract object candidate region by performing a binarization to saliency map. A small area in the object candidate region are removed to produce final result. Experiment results show the feasibility of the proposed algorithm.

본 논문에서는 해양 환경에서 획득한 IR 영상으로부터 웨이블렛 변환을 이용한 크기 변화에 무관한 물표 탐지 알고리즘을 제안한다. 모폴로지 연산을 이용하여 영상의 잡음을 제거한 후 2-D 이산 Haar 웨이블렛 변환(DHWT) 기법을 통해 수평 방향 에지(HL), 수직 방향 에지(LH), 대각선 방향 에지(HH) 영상들을 생성한다. 해양 환경을 고려하여, 웨이블렛의 각 레벨에서 수평과 수직 에지 영상을 가우시안 블러링을 수행하고 블러링된 수직 및 수평 에지들을 서로 곱하여 하나의 영상으로 결합하여 saliency map을 생성한다. 그런 다음 saliency map을 이진화 하여 물표 후보 영역을 추출한다. 마지막으로 물표 후보 영역에서 소영역 제거를 통해 최종적인 물표 영역을 추출한다. 실험결과에서는 제안된 알고리즘의 타당성을 보인다.

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