Optical Flow-Based Segmentation of Containers for Automatic Code Recognition

This paper presents a method for accurately segmenting moving container trucks in image sequences. This task allows to increase the performance of a recognition system that must identify the container code in order to check the entrance of containers through a port gate. To achieve good tolerance to non uniform backgrounds and the presence of multiple moving containers, an optical flow-based strategy is proposed. The algorithm introduces a voting strategy to detect the largest planar surface that shows a uniform motion of advance. Then, the top and rear limits of this surface are detected by a fast and effective method that searches for the limit that maximizes some object / non-object ratios. The method has been tested offline with a set of prerecorded sequences, achieving satisfactory results.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: ICAPR
• Authors: Vicente Atienza, Ángel Rodas, Gabriela Andreu, Alberto Perez
• Keywords: ICAPR 2005, Largest Planar Surface, Multiple Moving Containers, Non Uniform Backgrounds