Technique of Log Piles Location Based on Visual Saliency in Port

This paper studies on the method of log piles location under the complex port background. In a picture, log piles are easily affected by various interference sources. A new technique to detect log piles by taking use of the digital video cameras in port is presented in this paper. Firstly, a method based on the Itti saliency model can be used to roughly locate the log piles. On this basis, the algorithm of watershed segmentation is applied to precise location. At last, we can get the final location image by morphological analysis. Experimental results show that the new algorithm can get accurate location area of log piles, and meet the requirement of real-time as well.