Semantic terrain segmentation in the navigation vision of planetary rovers—A systematic literature review

B Kuang, C Gu, ZA Rana, Y Zhao, S Sun, SG Nnabuife - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Background: The planetary rover is an essential platform for planetary exploration. Visual
semantic segmentation is significant in the localization, perception, and path planning of the …

An edge-less approach to horizon line detection

T Ahmad, G Bebis, M Nicolescu… - 2015 IEEE 14th …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Horizon line is a promising visual cue which can be exploited for robot localization or visual
geo-localization. Prominent approaches to horizon line detection rely on edge detection as a …

Efficient sky segmentation approach for small UAV autonomous obstacles avoidance in cluttered environment

AS Mashaly, Y Wang, Q Liu - 2016 IEEE International …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Nowadays, Unmanned Air Systems (UAS) or Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAV) plays an
important role in different critical missions. UAVs must have the ability to perform different …

Horizon line detection using supervised learning and edge cues

T Ahmad, G Bebis, M Nicolescu, A Nefian… - Computer Vision and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Traditionally, edge detection has been extensively employed as the basic step for the
horizon line detection problem. However, generally such methods do not discriminate …

Segmenting sky pixels in images: Analysis and comparison

C La Place, A Urooj, A Borji - 2019 IEEE Winter Conference on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work addresses sky segmentation, the task of determining sky and non-sky pixels in
images, and improving upon existing state-of-the-art models. Outdoor scene parsing models …

Fusion of edge-less and edge-based approaches for horizon line detection

T Ahmad, G Bebis, M Nicolescu… - 2015 6th International …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Horizon line detection requires finding a boundary which segments an image into sky and
non-sky regions. It has many applications including visual geo-localization and geo-tagging …

Robust and automatic skyline detection algorithm based on mssdn

F Guo, Y Mai, J Tang, Y Huang, L Zhu - Journal of Advanced …, 2020 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Automatic detection of the skyline plays an important role in several applications, such as
visual geolocalization, flight control, port security, and mountain peak recognition. Existing …

[PDF][PDF] Real-time horizon line detection based on fusion of classification and clustering

AP Yazdanpanah, EE Regentova… - International Journal of …, 2015 - academia.edu
Horizon line detection is a demanding problem in various tasks associated with planet
exploration, because no standard approaches such as global positioning system is …

Coupling dynamic programming with machine learning for horizon line detection

T Ahmad, G Bebis, E Regentova, A Nefian… - International Journal on …, 2015 - World Scientific
In this paper, we consider the problem of segmenting an image into sky and non-sky
regions, typically referred to as horizon line detection or skyline extraction. Specifically, we …

Horizon based orientation estimation for planetary surface navigation

X Bouyssounouse, AV Nefian, A Thomas… - … on Image Processing …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Planetary rovers navigate in extreme environments for which a Global Positioning System
(GPS) is unavailable, maps are restricted to relatively low resolution provided by orbital …