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Automatic power line detection is one of the most important and challenging tasks for helicopter’s low flight to avoid the power-line-strike accident. In this paper, we propose a novel method to detect power lines in the infrared image. Firstly, region growing is used to get the line support regions. Then a ridge-based line detector is applied to extract the accurate power lines points in the support regions followed by a linking step combined with chain codes analysis to refine the power lines. The experimental results against two state-of-the-art line detection algorithms demonstrate the performance of the proposed algorithm.
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The work is supported by graduate starting seed fund of Northwestern Polytechnical University (NO. Z2012116).
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Yao, X., Guo, L., Zhao, T. (2013). Power Line Detection Based on Region Growing and Ridge-Based Line Detector. In: Sun, Z., Deng, Z. (eds) Proceedings of 2013 Chinese Intelligent Automation Conference. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 255. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38460-8_48
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