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Adaptive Segmentation Approach to Extraction of Road and Sky Regions

  • Journal of The Korea Society of Computer and Information
  • Abbr : JKSCI
  • 2011, 16(7), pp.105-116
  • Publisher : The Korean Society Of Computer And Information
  • Research Area : Engineering > Computer Science

박경환 1 Kwang Woo Nam 1 Rhee Yang Weon 1 Chang Woo Lee 1

1군산대학교

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ABSTRACT

In Vision-based Intelligent Transportation System(ITS) the segmentation of road region is a very basic functionality. Accordingly, in this paper, we propose a region segmentation method using adaptive pattern extraction technique to segment road regions and sky regions from original images. The proposed method consists of three steps; firstly we perform the initial segmentation using Mean Shift algorithm, the second step is the candidate region selection based on a static-pattern matching technique and the third is the region growing step based on a dynamic-pattern matching technique. The proposed method is able to get more reliable results than the classic region segmentation methods which are based on existing split and merge strategy. The reason for the better results is because we use adaptive patterns extracted from neighboring regions of the current segmented regions to measure the region homogeneity. To evaluate advantages of the proposed method, we compared our method with the classical pattern matching method using static-patterns. In the experiments, the proposed method was proved that the better performance of 8.12% was achieved when we used adaptive patterns instead of static-patterns. We expect that the proposed method can segment road and sky areas in the various road condition in stable, and take an important role in the vision-based ITS applications.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.