<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> This article proposes a method of locating and recognizing lockholes in shipping container corner castings. This method converts the original image of the containers captured by a camera into the HSV (Hue, Saturation, Value) color space. To reduce the influence of the surface color of the containers and lights from the environment on the locating and recognizing algorithm, most noisy points of the image are filtered by binarization and a morphology opening operation to make the features of the containers clearer in the image. Thus, the container body can be separated from the total image. Then, the position and size of the corner castings are defined through calculation based on the international standard of the shipping container size. Lastly, by using this method, we can locate the corner casting in the image by using the General Hough Transform fitting algorithm onto ellipses.</p></abstract>

This article proposes a method of locating and recognizing lockholes in shipping container corner castings. This method converts the original image of the containers captured by a camera into the HSV (Hue, Saturation, Value) color space. To reduce the influence of the surface color of the containers and lights from the environment on the locating and recognizing algorithm, most noisy points of the image are filtered by binarization and a morphology opening operation to make the features of the containers clearer in the image. Thus, the container body can be separated from the total image. Then, the position and size of the corner castings are defined through calculation based on the international standard of the shipping container size. Lastly, by using this method, we can locate the corner casting in the image by using the General Hough Transform fitting algorithm onto ellipses.

A Positioning Lockholes of Container Corner Castings Method Based on Image Recognition

Polish Maritime Research

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This article proposes a method of locating and recognizing lockholes in shipping container corner castings. This method converts the original image of the...

A Positioning Lockholes of Container Corner Castings Method Based on Image Recognition

Article Category: Special Issue Title: Marine Processes Studies And Marine Engineering

Published Online: Nov 22, 2017

Page range: 95 - 101

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/pomr-2017-0110

Keywords
Lockholes of container corner, HSV, Lockholes positioning, Hough transformation

© 2017

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

A Positioning Lockholes of Container Corner Castings Method Based on Image Recognition

Article Category: Special Issue Title: Marine Processes Studies And Marine Engineering

Published Online: Nov 22, 2017

Page range: 95 - 101

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/pomr-2017-0110

KeywordsLockholes of container corner, HSV, Lockholes positioning, Hough transformation

© 2017

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
Lockholes of container corner, HSV, Lockholes positioning, Hough transformation