Nautical Scene Segmentation Using Variable Size Image Windows and Feature Space Reclustering
Abstract
This paper describes the development of a system for the segmentation of small vessels and objects present in a maritime environment. The system assumes no a priori knowledge of the sea, but uses statistical analysis within variable size image windows to determine a characteristic vector that represents the current sea state. A space of characteristic vectors is searched and a main group of characteristic vectors and its centroid found automatically by using a new method of iterative reclustering. This method is an extension and improvement of the work described in [9]. A Mahalanobis distance measure from the centroid is calculated for each characteristic vector and is used to determine inhomogenities in the sea caused by the presence of a rigid object. The system has been tested using several input image sequences of static small objects such as buoys and small and large maritime vessels moving into and out of a harbour scene and the system successfully segmented these objects.
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Voles et al. "Nautical Scene Segmentation Using Variable Size Image Windows and Feature Space Reclustering." European Conference on Computer Vision, 2000. doi:10.1007/3-540-45053-X_21Markdown
[Voles et al. "Nautical Scene Segmentation Using Variable Size Image Windows and Feature Space Reclustering." European Conference on Computer Vision, 2000.](https://mlanthology.org/eccv/2000/voles2000eccv-nautical/) doi:10.1007/3-540-45053-X_21BibTeX
@inproceedings{voles2000eccv-nautical,
title = {{Nautical Scene Segmentation Using Variable Size Image Windows and Feature Space Reclustering}},
author = {Voles, P. and Smith, A. A. W. and Teal, M. K.},
booktitle = {European Conference on Computer Vision},
year = {2000},
pages = {324-335},
doi = {10.1007/3-540-45053-X_21},
url = {https://mlanthology.org/eccv/2000/voles2000eccv-nautical/}
}