Image Analysis Module for AR-based Navigation Information Display

초록

This paper suggests the navigation information display system which is based on augmented reality technology. Navigator has to always confirm the information from marine electronic navigation devices and then compare with the view of outside targets of the windows. During this 'head down' posture, they feel uncomfortable and sometimes it cause near accidents such as collision or missing object, because he or she cannot keep an eye on the front view of windows. Augmented reality can display both of information of virtual and real in a single display. Therefore we tried to adapt the AR technology to help navigators. To analyze the outside view of the bridge window, various computer image processing techniques are required since sea surface has many noises to disturb computer image processing for object detection, such as wave, wake, light reflection and so on. In this paper, we studied on the analysis module to extract navigational information from the images which are captured by CCTV camera, finally we were validated with our prototype.