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Road pixel segmentation in airborne data is an important and challenging task. Recently, a sophisticated and robust approach based on superpixels and minimum cost paths has been published. In order to find out which of the numerous features are most essential, we propose a forward-search wrapper approach for feature selection which was tested with two different classifiers and with both generic and...
Since road markings are one of the main landmarks used for traffic guidance, perceiving them may be a crucial task for autonomous vehicles. In visual approaches, road marking detection consists in detecting pixels of an image that corresponds to a road marking. Recently, most approaches have aimed on detecting lane markings only, and few of them proposed methods to detect other types of road markings...
Despite the recent success of deep-learning based semantic segmentation, deploying a pre-trained road scene segmenter to a city whose images are not presented in the training set would not achieve satisfactory performance due to dataset biases. Instead of collecting a large number of annotated images of each city of interest to train or refine the segmenter, we propose an unsupervised learning approach...
Creating road maps is essential for applications such as autonomous driving and city planning. Most approaches in industry focus on leveraging expensive sensors mounted on top of a fleet of cars. This results in very accurate estimates when exploiting a user in the loop. However, these solutions are very expensive and have small coverage. In contrast, in this paper we propose an approach that directly...
The frequent occurrence of road congestion and traffic accidents has affected people's travel efficiency and travel safety. Traffic sign recognition has become one of the key research objects in intelligent transportation system. This paper studies the identification of road traffic signs based on video images. First of all, collected image will be image preprocessing with image reduction, brightness...
Intelligent Intersection Traffic Management has become increasingly important because of the need to reduce congestion and improve the overall travel experience of commuters. Given the dynamic nature of everyday city traffic, this paper proposes real-time processing of videos from cameras to estimate the traffic density and optimize the signal parameters of the intersection. The region-of-interest...
In this paper we propose a deep learning architecture to make the best use of global and local information for pixel-wise semantic segmentation. The architecture of three-skips CNN is built with convolutional layers in VGG16 network and its mirrored convolutional layers. Our architecture aims to road scene understanding. In order to save memory and computational time, we use unpooling layers to map...
In this paper, we propose a novel approach for road width measurement from high resolution satellite or aerial images. The proposed approach has three main steps. First, we extract line segments and road center lines on the given remote sensing images. Second, we could obtain many pairs of parallel lines with width information by computing the positional relationship between each other. Then K-means...
In this paper, we proposed a convolutional neural network (CNN) features-based framework for road network extraction in high-resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. First, in consideration of rich structure information of road areas in high-resolution SAR images, a CNN model is proposed to extract road-area features and detect road candidates. The CNN model helps to improve the accuracy...
Autonomous cars establish driving strategies using the positions of ego lanes. The previous methods detect lane points and select ego lanes with heuristic and complex postprocessing with strong geometric assumptions. We propose a sequential end-to-end transfer learning method to estimate left and right ego lanes directly and separately without any postprocessing. We redefined a point-detection problem...
Large-scale intersections stamped on maps have diverse visual features for detection, while small-scale urban intersections are hard to be identified especially when GPS signals are missing. In this paper, we propose a Hidden Markov Model (HMM) based small-scale intersection detection method utilizing monocular vision. We extract visual cues of road transformations and dynamic vehicles' tracks, and...
Road sign recognition (RSR) systems are one of the main tasks of intelligent transportation systems (ITS). These systems employ vehicle mounted cameras to identify traffic signs while driving on the road. Their primary function is to inform the driver of recent traffic signs that may have been missed due to distraction or inattentiveness. In this work, a new method for road sign detection and recognition...
Road detection from the perspective of moving vehicles is a challenging issue in autonomous driving. Recently, many deep learning methods spring up for this task because they can extract high-level local features to find road regions from raw RGB data, such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) and Fully Convolutional Networks (FCN). However, how to detect the boundary of road accurately is still...
Texture is an important feature in RS image classification of land-use, and its precision mainly depends on the scale parameters, which are strongly correlated with the geometry characteristics of the classified objects. However, there is no a recognized reliable method for texture scale extraction. So this paper proposes an new approach to indirectly extract them with the assistance of domain GIS...
The traffic sign detection and recognition is an integral part of Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS). Traffic signs provide information about the traffic rules, road conditions and route directions and assist the drivers for better and safe driving. Traffic sign detection and recognition system has two main stages: The first stage involves the traffic sign localization and the second stage classifies...
Road detection from images is a challenging task in computer vision. Previous methods are not robust, because their features and classifiers cannot adapt to different circumstances. To overcome this problem, we propose to apply unsupervised feature learning for road detection. Specifically, we develop an improved encoding function and add a feature selection process to obtain robust and discriminative...
Traffic Sign Recognition (TSR) system is a significant component of Intelligent Transport System (ITS) as traffic signs assist the drivers to drive more safely and efficiently. This paper represents a new approach for TSR system using hybrid features formed by two robust features descriptors, named Histogram Oriented Gradient(HOG) features and Speeded Up Robust Features(SURF) and artificial neural...
Pixel-labeling approaches using semantic segmentation play an important role in road scene understanding. In recent years, deep learning approaches such as the deconvolutional neural network have been used for semantic segmentation, obtaining state-of-the-art results. However, the segmentation results have limited object delineation. In this paper, we adopt the de-convolutional neural network to perform...
Traffic Sign Recognition (TSR) system is a vital component of intelligent transport system. It plays an important role by enhancing the safety of the drivers, pedestrians and vehicles as traffic signs provide important information of the traffic environment of the road and assist the drivers to drive more safely and easily by guiding and warning. This paper represents road sign detection and recognition...
Autonomous driving can effectively reduce traffic congestion and road accidents. Therefore, it is necessary to implement an efficient high-level, scene understanding model in an embedded device with limited power and sources. Toward this goal, we propose ApesNet, an efficient pixel-wise segmentation network, which understands road scenes in real-time, and has achieved promising accuracy. The key findings...
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