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A Framework for Object Detection by Haze Removal

안개 제거에 의한 객체 검출 성능 향상 방법

  • 김상균 (국립목포대학교 전자공학과) ;
  • 최경호 (국립목포대학교 전자공학과) ;
  • 박순영 (국립목포대학교 전자공학과)
  • Received : 2014.01.22
  • Accepted : 2014.04.24
  • Published : 2014.05.25
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Abstract

Detecting moving objects from a video sequence is a fundamental and critical task in video surveillance, traffic monitoring and analysis, and human detection and tracking. It is very difficult to detect moving objects in a video sequence degraded by the environmental factor such as fog. In particular, the color of an object become similar to the neighbor and it reduces the saturation, thus making it very difficult to distinguish the object from the background. For such a reason, it is shown that the performance and reliability of object detection and tracking are poor in the foggy weather. In this paper, we propose a novel method to improve the performance of object detection, combining a haze removal algorithm and a local histogram-based object tracking method. For the quantitative evaluation of the proposed system, information retrieval measurements, recall and precision, are used to quantify how well the performance is improved before and after the haze removal. As a result, the visibility of the image is enhanced and the performance of objects detection is improved.

영상 시퀀스로부터 움직이는 객체의 검출은 비디오 감시, 교통 모니터링 및 분석, 사람 검출 및 추적 등에서 가장 기본적이며 중요한 분야이다. 안개와 같은 환경적 요인에 의하여 화질이 저하된 영상 속에서 움직이는 객체를 검출하는 일은 매우 어렵다. 특히, 안개는 주변 물체의 색상을 모두 비슷하게 만들고 채도를 떨어뜨려 배경으로부터 객체를 구별하기 힘들게 만든다. 이런 이유로 안개 영상 속에서 객체 검출 성능은 매우 낮으며 신뢰할 수 없는 결과를 나타내고 있다. 본 논문은 안개와 같은 환경적 요인을 제거하고 객체의 검출 성능을 높이기 위한 방법으로 안개 지수를 기반으로 안개 유무를 판단하고, Dark Channel Prior을 이용하여 안개 영상의 전달량을 추정하고 안개가 제거된 영상으로 복원하였으며 가우시안 혼합 모델을 이용한 배경 차분 방법을 이용하여 객체를 검출하였다. 그리고 제안된 방법의 성능을 비교하기 위해 안개 제거 전과 후의 영상에 대한 Recall 과 Precision을 측정하여 안개 제거에 따른 성능 향상 정도를 수치화하여 비교하였다. 결과적으로 안개 제거 후 영상의 가시성이 매우 향상되었으며 객체 검출 성능이 매우 향상됨을 알 수 있었다.

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