We present a robust power transmission lines detection method based on vanishing point estimation. Vanishing point estimation can be helpful to detect power transmission lines because
parallel lines converge on the vanishing point in a projected 2D image. However, it is not easy to estimate the vanishing point correctly in an image with complex background. Thus, we first propose a vanishing point estimation method on power transmission lines by using a probabilistic voting procedure based on intersection points of line segments. In images obtained by our system, power transmission lines are located in a fan-shaped area centered on this estimated vanishing point, and therefore we select the line segments that converge to the estimated vanishing point as candidate line segments for power transmission lines only in this fan-shaped area. Finally, we detect the power transmission lines from these candidate line segments. Experimental results show that the proposed method is robust to noise and efficient to detect power transmission lines.

• 유주한(Center for Bionics, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul, Korea) | Ju Han Yoo
• 김동환(Center for Bionics, Korea Institute of Science and Technology) | Dong Hwan Kim Corresponding author
• 이석(Center for Sensor System, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul, Korea) | Seok Lee
• 박성기(Center for Bionics, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul, Korea) | Sung-Kee Park