TY - GEN
T1 - Towards landmine detection using artificial vision
AU - Coronado-Vergara, Javier
AU - Aviña-Cervantes, Gabriel
AU - Devy, Michel
AU - Parra, Carlos
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - One of the main needs for the humanitarian demining procedures in Colombia and in the whole world is to find complementary sensing methods for the metal detectors. This paper presents a study whose main goal is the development of a complementary sensor for a metal detector, based on the analysis of images taken by an on-board camera. The images are processed by developing texture and color analysis of different types of surfaces, composed mainly by grass or small rocks. Based on the color and texture analysis, this paper shows that it is possible to determine the presence of a non-metallic landmine within the image. This is achieved by finding the image regions whose texture features variations and color compositions are considered to be anomalous. It is thought that the texture variations over the image are an indicator that the surface has been intentionally modified. This image processing strategy is being integrated on the robot 'Úrsula', designed at Universidad Javeriana in Colombia.
AB - One of the main needs for the humanitarian demining procedures in Colombia and in the whole world is to find complementary sensing methods for the metal detectors. This paper presents a study whose main goal is the development of a complementary sensor for a metal detector, based on the analysis of images taken by an on-board camera. The images are processed by developing texture and color analysis of different types of surfaces, composed mainly by grass or small rocks. Based on the color and texture analysis, this paper shows that it is possible to determine the presence of a non-metallic landmine within the image. This is achieved by finding the image regions whose texture features variations and color compositions are considered to be anomalous. It is thought that the texture variations over the image are an indicator that the surface has been intentionally modified. This image processing strategy is being integrated on the robot 'Úrsula', designed at Universidad Javeriana in Colombia.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79957977492&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/IROS.2005.1545250
DO - 10.1109/IROS.2005.1545250
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79957977492
SN - 0780389123
SN - 9780780389120
T3 - 2005 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS
SP - 659
EP - 664
BT - 2005 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS
PB - IEEE Computer Society
ER -