The invention discloses a method for extracting a
tower target in an unmanned aerial vehicle routing inspection
power transmission line image, and belongs to the technical field of
pattern recognition and intelligent computation technologies. The method for extracting the
tower target comprises the steps of converting an image acquired by aerial photographing from an
RGB color space into an HSI (
hue / saturation / luminance) space, carrying out binarization
processing on an I component image of the HIS space after being subjected to median filtering so as to acquire a
binary image of an
electric power tower profile; carrying out
angular point detection on the
binary image of the
electric power tower profile by adopting an improved Susan
angular point detection method, and marking positions of all angular points in the
binary image of the
electric power tower profile; and detecting the
mass center of an
angular point sequence based on a moment invariant
mass center detection
algorithm, and marking the position of the electric
power tower in an original image by taking the
mass center as a center. Through applying the technical scheme disclosed by the invention, the electric
power tower can be extracted accurately in real time, and a guarantee is provided for fault diagnosis of electric power components such as insulators, hardware fittings and the like on the tower.