High Voltage Transmission Tower Detection and Tracking in Aerial Video Sequence using Object-Based Image Classification

Abstract

The Aerial Surveillance is an effective method to inspect overhead power transmission line in complicated geographical terrains. However, the practical automatic method is still needed to improve the inspection efficiency. The Canny-Edge detector and Hough transformation are used to extract the power transmission tower straight-line feature. Then, we use object-based image classification to classify the straight-line. The experiments from a set of real-world video sequence have shown the excellent performance of our approach in term of the receiver operating characteristic curve.