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Line segment detection using weighted mean shift procedures on a 2D slice sampling strategy

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A new line segment detection approach is introduced in this paper for its application in real-time computer vision systems. It has been designed to work unsupervised without any prior knowledge of the imaged scene; hence, it does not require tuning of input parameters. Although many works have been presented on this topic, as far as we know, none of them achieves a trade-off between accuracy and speed as our strategy does. The reduction of the computational cost compared to other fast methods is based on a very efficient sampling strategy that sequentially proposes points on the image that likely belong to line segments. Then, a fast line growing algorithm is applied based on the Bresenham algorithm, which is combined with a modified version of the mean shift algorithm to provide accurate line segments while being robust against noise. The performance of this strategy is tested for a wide variety of images, comparing its results with popular state-of-the-art line segment detection methods. The results show that our proposal outperforms these works considering simultaneously accuracy in the results and processing speed.

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  1. For the sake of clarity in the notation, italic characters correspond to scalar values while bold characters represent arrays.

  2. SSWMS RP, 91.73/95.35; LSD RP, 90.35/73.33; PPHT, RP: 38.19/89.91. These numbers mean that both the LSD and SSWMS offer great results for this image, although the LSD delivers more false alarms. The PPHT suffer more missdetections and thus its recall value is very low.

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This work has been partially supported by the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación of the Spanish Government under project TEC2007-67764 (SmartVision), and by the Comunidad de Madrid under project S-0505/TIC-0223 (Pro-Multidis).

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    Marcos Nieto

  2. Grupo de Tratamiento de Imágenes, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28040, Madrid, Spain

    Carlos Cuevas, Luis Salgado & Narciso García

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Nieto, M., Cuevas, C., Salgado, L. et al. Line segment detection using weighted mean shift procedures on a 2D slice sampling strategy. Pattern Anal Applic 14, 149–163 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10044-011-0211-4

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