Shoreline Detection and Land Segmentation for Autonomous Surface Vehicle Navigation with the Use of an Optical System

Autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs) are a critical part of recent progressive marine technologies. Their development demands the capability of optical systems to understand and interpret the surrounding landscape. This capability plays an important role in the navigation of coastal areas a safe distance from land, which demands sophisticated image segmentation algorithms. For this purpose, some solutions, based on traditional image processing and neural networks, have been introduced. However, the solution of traditional image processing methods requires a set of parameters before execution, while the solution of a neural network demands a large database of labelled images. Our new solution, which avoids these drawbacks, is based on adaptive filtering and progressive segmentation. The adaptive filtering is deployed to suppress weak edges in the image, which is convenient for shoreline detection. Progressive segmentation is devoted to distinguishing the sky and land areas, using a probabilistic clustering model to improve performance. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed method, a set of images acquired from the vehicle's operative camera were utilised. The results demonstrate that the proposed method performs with high accuracy regardless of distance from land or weather conditions.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:20

Enthalten in:

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) - 20(2020), 10 vom: 14. Mai

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Hożyń, Stanisław [VerfasserIn]
Zalewski, Jacek [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Autonomous surface vehicle
Journal Article
Land segmentation
Marine navigation
Shoreline detection

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Date Completed 20.05.2020

Date Revised 19.06.2020

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/s20102799

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM310057094