A Novel Method to Extract Rocks from Mars Images

WANG Shuliang; CHEN Yasen; YUAN Hanning

doi:10.1049/cje.2015.07.003

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WANG Shuliang, CHEN Yasen, YUAN Hanning, “A Novel Method to Extract Rocks from Mars Images,” Chinese Journal of Electronics, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 455-461, 2015, doi: 10.1049/cje.2015.07.003

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WANG Shuliang, CHEN Yasen, YUAN Hanning, “A Novel Method to Extract Rocks from Mars Images,” Chinese Journal of Electronics, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 455-461, 2015, doi: 10.1049/cje.2015.07.003

WANG Shuliang, CHEN Yasen, YUAN Hanning, “A Novel Method to Extract Rocks from Mars Images,” Chinese Journal of Electronics, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 455-461, 2015, doi: 10.1049/cje.2015.07.003

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WANG Shuliang, CHEN Yasen, YUAN Hanning, “A Novel Method to Extract Rocks from Mars Images,” Chinese Journal of Electronics, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 455-461, 2015, doi: 10.1049/cje.2015.07.003

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A Novel Method to Extract Rocks from Mars Images

doi: 10.1049/cje.2015.07.003

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School of Software, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China;
2.
Tencent Inc. Hi-techPark, Nanshan District, Shenzhen 518057, China

Funds: This work is supported by the National Natural Science Fund of China (No.61173061, No.61472039, No.71201120) and the Doctoral Fund of Higher Education (No.20121101110036).

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Corresponding author: YUAN Hanning (corresponding author) is an associate professor in Beijing Institute of Technology in China. Her research interests include e-commerce and data mining (Email: yhn6@bit.edu.cn).
Received Date: 2013-11-14
Rev Recd Date: 2014-10-09
Publish Date: 2015-07-10

Abstract

Abstract

Automatically extracting rocks from Martian surface images is valuable for hazard avoidance and rover localization in rover missions. To extract rocks, data field on image is proposed to model the interaction between two pixels of an image under the imagery characteristics of Martian surface. Foreground rocks are firstly grouped into clusters by locating the centers and edges in data field after they are differed from background information via binarizing partition. Then target rocks are discovered for the Rover to keep healthy paths. The experiment shows the data field on image is practical and potential.
- Data fields,
- Mars image,
- Rock extraction

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