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Journal of Zhejiang University SCIENCE A 2009 Vol.10 No.6 P.786-793

http://doi.org/10.1631/jzus.A0820198


Robust water hazard detection for autonomous off-road navigation


Author(s):  Tuo-zhong YAO, Zhi-yu XIANG, Ji-lin LIU

Affiliation(s):  Department of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China

Corresponding email(s):   thomasyao@zju.edu.cn, xiangzy@zju.edu.cn

Key Words:  Water hazard detection, Active learning, Adaboost, Mean-shift


Tuo-zhong YAO, Zhi-yu XIANG, Ji-lin LIU. Robust water hazard detection for autonomous off-road navigation[J]. Journal of Zhejiang University Science A, 2009, 10(6): 786-793.

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Abstract: 
Existing water hazard detection methods usually fail when the features of water surfaces are greatly changed by the surroundings, e.g., by a change in illumination. This paper proposes a novel algorithm to robustly detect different kinds of water hazards for autonomous navigation. Our algorithm combines traditional machine learning and image segmentation and uses only digital cameras, which are usually affordable, as the visual sensors. active learning is used for automatically dealing with problems caused by the selection, labeling and classification of large numbers of training sets. mean-shift based image segmentation is used to refine the final classification. Our experimental results show that our new algorithm can accurately detect not only ‘common’ water hazards, which usually have the features of both high brightness and low texture, but also ‘special’ water hazards that may have lots of ripples or low brightness.

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