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Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing IV – João Tavares & Natal Jorge (eds)
© 2014 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-1-138-00081-0
Detection of power lines by image processing
Peter Seibold, Michael Gerke, Ivan Masár, František Jelenčiak, Pavol Bahnik & Lothar Bahr
Control Systems Engineering Group, Department of Mathematics and Informatics, FernUniversität in Hagen,
Germany
ABSTRACT: For aerial vehicles, especially when unmanned, the detection of lines—like power lines
or cable car lines—is essential for collision avoidance or inspection. A method is presented to extract
the lines even in front of cluttered background like ...