@article{(Open Science Index):https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10470, title = {Design of FIR Filter for Water Level Detection}, author = {Sakol Udomsiri and Masahiro Iwahashi}, country = {}, institution = {}, abstract = {This paper proposes a new design of spatial FIR filter to automatically detect water level from a video signal of various river surroundings. A new approach in this report applies "addition" of frames and a "horizontal" edge detector to distinguish water region and land region. Variance of each line of a filtered video frame is used as a feature value. The water level is recognized as a boundary line between the land region and the water region. Edge detection filter essentially demarcates between two distinctly different regions. However, the conventional filters are not automatically adaptive to detect water level in various lighting conditions of river scenery. An optimized filter is purposed so that the system becomes robust to changes of lighting condition. More reliability of the proposed system with the optimized filter is confirmed by accuracy of water level detection.}, journal = {International Journal of Electronics and Communication Engineering}, volume = {2}, number = {12}, year = {2008}, pages = {2663 - 2668}, ee = {https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10470}, url = {https://publications.waset.org/vol/24}, bibsource = {https://publications.waset.org/}, issn = {eISSN: 1307-6892}, publisher = {World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology}, index = {Open Science Index 24, 2008}, }