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The Method of Vanishing Point Estimation in Natural Environment using RANSAC

  • Journal of The Korea Society of Computer and Information
  • Abbr : JKSCI
  • 2013, 18(9), pp.53-62
  • Publisher : The Korean Society Of Computer And Information
  • Research Area : Engineering > Computer Science

원선희 1 주성일 1 HYUNG IL CHOI 1

1숭실대학교

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ABSTRACT

This paper proposes a method of automatically predicting the vanishing point for the purpose of detecting the road region from natural images. The proposed method stably detects the vanishing point in the road environment by analyzing the dominant orientation of the image and predicting the vanishing point to be at the position where the feature components of the image are concentrated. For this purpose, in the first stage, the image is partitioned into sub-blocks, an edge sample is selected randomly from within the sub-block, and RANSAC is applied for line fitting in order to analyze the dominant orientation of each sub-block. Once the dominant orientation has been detected for all blocks, we proceed to the second stage and randomly select line samples and apply RANSAC to perform the fitting of the intersection point, then measure the cost of the intersection model arising from each line and we predict the vanishing point to be located at the average point, based on the intersection point model with the highest cost. Lastly, quantitative and qualitative analyses are performed to verify the performance in various situations and prove the efficiency of the proposed algorithm for detecting the vanishing point.

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