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Noise Resistant Morphological Algorithm of Moving Forklift Truck Detection on Noisy Image Data
We investigate the specific problem of machine vision, namely, video-based detection of the moving forklift truck. It is shown that the detection quality of the state-of-the-art local descriptors (SURF, SIFT, etc.) is not satisfactory if the resolution is low and the illumination is changed dramatically. In this paper, we propose to use a simple mathematical morphological algorithm to detect the presence of a cargo on the forklift truck. At first, the movement direction is estimated by the updating motion history image method and the front part of the moving object is obtained. Next, contours are detected and morphological operations in front of the moving object are used to estimate simple geometric features of empty forklift. In the experimental study it has been shown that the proposed method has 40% lower FAR and 27% lower FRR in comparison with conventional matching of local descriptors. Moreover, our algorithm is 7 times faster.