Count method of leaves on the surface of a river using interactive color indication of coloring picture style

  • Authors:
  • Fujio Tsutsumi;Yutaka Tateda

  • Affiliations:
  • Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Tokyo, Japan;Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Chiba, Japan

  • Venue:
  • EuroIMSA '08 Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We propose a count method for leaves on the surface of a river to be used in ecosystem monitoring. Since conventional count methods require considerable manual labor for precise monitoring of material flow in the ecosystem, an efficient counting method was needed. Our method automatically counts the number of floating leaves in recorded video using color and motion features. The color feature is represented by 3 dimensional histogram of a color space. We have developed a user interface based on the interactive machine learning model to extract the color feature from video images. The user can easily produce a huge number of sample data to extract the color feature by the user interface in the same way as coloring a picture. For the motion feature, speed and acceleration of the targets are used. The counting method proposed in this paper has been applied to three videos (total five hours) which recorded about 20,000 leaves, and high recall and precision rates of 96% and 94%, respectively, have been achieved.