A Fast and Reliable Corner Detector for Non-Uniform Illumination Mineshaft Images

We propose a fast and reliable corner detector that can detect corners under non-uniform illumination and fuzzy mineshaft images effectively. First, we presented an inner mask that used only four pixels to determine the flat and corner regions of an image, which could eliminate unnecessary computati...

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Main Authors: Xing Yuanxiu, Zhang Dengyi, Zhao Jianhui, Xu Aiping
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2013-12-01
Series:Journal of Intelligent Systems
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/jisys-2013-0043
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Summary:We propose a fast and reliable corner detector that can detect corners under non-uniform illumination and fuzzy mineshaft images effectively. First, we presented an inner mask that used only four pixels to determine the flat and corner regions of an image, which could eliminate unnecessary computation of flat regions, thus reducing computing cost. Second, we separated the corner regions into background and foreground and computed the separate corner threshold to settle non-uniform illumination. Third, we proposed a fast corner-detection algorithm to compute the nucleus continuous contributive segment based on the corner state. Finally, we proposed two effective methods to remove the false corners. Experimental results showed that our approach has a better detection quality and is less time consuming than three other algorithms on an artificial image, a noisy image, and non-uniform images and could meet the real-time requirement of mineshaft applications.
ISSN:0334-1860
2191-026X