Rajeev M Bhujade, Adithya V, Hrishikesh S and Balamurali P, Tata Consultancy Services - Bangalore, India

Power transmission line inspection using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) is taking off as an exciting solution due to advances in sensors and flight technology. Extracting power-lines from aerial images, taken from the UAV, having complex natural surroundings is a critical task in the above problem. In this paper we propose an approach for suppressing natural surrounding that leads to power line detection. The results of applying our method on real-life video frames taken from a UAV demonstrate that our approach is very effective. We believe that our approach can be easily used for line detection in any other real outdoor video as well.

Transmission line extraction, Background Suppression, UAV