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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...
This paper considers robust vehicle logo recognition (without aiming at accurate location) for intelligent transportation systems. We propose a recognition-before-location framework for multi-scale vehicle logos which exploits a directional SIFT flow parsing method. We extract dense SIFT descriptors of different standard vehicle logos. An improved matching method is proposed to obtain a directional...
In this paper, we propose the dense disparity map-based pedestrian detection method for intelligent vehicle. The dense disparity map is utilized to improve the pedestrian detection performance. Our method consists of several steps namely, obstacle area detection using road feature information and column detection, pedestrian area detection using dense disparity map-based segmentation, and pedestrian...
In the field of intelligent vehicle systems (IVS), color and edge of lane markings are important features for vision-based applications. This paper proposes a method to detect lane marking based on a fusion approach which combine color and edge lane marking information. Firstly, by knowing the vehicle speed the road surface region of interest is extracted using the typical stopping distance. Secondly,...
Vehicle number plate recognition (VNPR) is a technique used to extract the license plate from a sequence of images. The extracted information in the database can be used in the applications like electronic payment systems such as toll payment, parking lots etc. An effective VNPR can be implemented based on the quality of the acquired images. It is used for real time application and it has to recognize...
Traffic signs serve important functions on the road. Drivers can easily determine their directions and vehicle speeds by paying attention to traffic signs. However, it is only natural that sometimes drivers misjudge the position and meaning of traffic signs that they ignore them and in the worst case scenario, got involved in accidents. Therefore, technological improvements allow the development of...
In this paper, we propose a Vehicle Logo Recognition (VLR) approach which uses moment invariant for feature extraction. Moment invariants and Minimum-Mean Distance (MMD) classifier are adopted to recognize six different types of vehicle logos from a public dataset. Vehicle logos obtained from coarse and fine segmentation, are recognized using Tchebichef and Legendre moment invariants. In either coarse...
Even though crashes between trains and road users are rare events at railway level crossings, they are one of the major safety concerns for the Australian railway industry. Nearmiss events at level crossings occur more frequently, and can provide more information about factors leading to level crossing incidents. In this paper we introduce a video analytic approach for automatically detecting and...
Fast object detection is the most important part of the unmanned surface vehicles (USV) which make it possible for the USV to avoid the obstacle automatically and navigate autonomously. So, it is necessary to find a fast and accurate object detection method. In practice, the significant difficulty is that the environment is quite complicated which make the object uncertain. The obstacle may be a person,...
Rotary-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) are being widely used in different applications due to its several features, such as mobility, lightweight, embedded processing and capability of flying in different height levels. Among the possible applications they are used in surveillance tasks, agriculture environments monitoring, power lines inspections and diseases detection in crops. The images captured...
In order to remove the problem of the shadow of moving vehicles in video surveillance, this paper presents an algorithm based on projection features of the connected regions to eliminate the dynamic shadow. Firstly, the Frame Difference method is applied to image blocks to extract the background. Then, the moving vehicles are detected as the foreground in the current frame by background subtraction...
Our aim is to automatically detect the road borders in a road scene image. This is useful to many road scenes analysis applications, in both fields of vehicle guidance and civil engineering. Difficulties arise because pavements are often heterogeneous and because illumination variations often occur in outdoor scenes. Some vehicle navigation projects use colour images for road borders detection [1,...
A new robust lane marking detection algorithm for monocular vision is proposed. It is designed for the urban roads with disturbances and with the weak lane markings. The primary contribution of the paper is that it supplies a robust adaptive method of image segmentation, which employs jointly prior knowledge, statistical information and the special geometrical features of lane markings in the bird's-eye...
A novel method for vehicle detection and tracking, which is capable to correctly detect and track vehicle headlights in rural and urban areas is presented. The detection procedure does not require image thresholding, or other preprocessing, which is commonly used in other methods, thus offering robustness and performance. A tracking method based on Joint Probability Data Association Filter (JPDAF)...
This paper presents a robust real time feature based algorithm for localization and recognition of multiple color and font style license plates. The algorithm uses digitized license plate images for robust detection and recognition. The resolution of the captured image is adjusted and the brightness and contrast are set to appropriate levels. An optimal threshold is applied to detect white regions...
Precise localization is an essential issue for autonomous driving applications, where GPS-based systems are challenged to meet requirements such as lane-level accuracy. This paper introduces a new visual-based localization approach in dynamic traffic environments, focusing on and exploiting properties of structured roads like straight roads or intersections. Such environments show several line segments...
The proper identification of the traffic signs can ensure driving safety and can play a very important role in reducing the number of road accidents significantly. This paper represents a uniform way to detect the speed limit traffic signs and to confirm it by recognizing the sign's speed number. In this system, firstly the red color objects are segmented from an image using LVQ. Secondly, detected...
This paper presents a new framework and feature set for vehicle model query system. By giving model names or manufacturer names as keywords, the desired vehicle images can be queried from target videos or vehicle image databases using internet-vision approach. In this framework, sample images are automatically retrieved from internet via search engine or car related website. Logos and frontal masks...
This paper presents a methodology for the extraction, recognition and characterization of paths in aerial images. We present a sequential algorithm that creates a linear approximation of the underlying path. The path is divided into straight line segments in a sequential manner. It takes under consideration the local spatial structure of the patterns in order to extract the straight line segment and...
Road segmentation plays an important role in many computer vision applications, either for in-vehicle perception or traffic surveillance. In camera-equipped vehicles, road detection methods are being developed for advanced driver assistance, lane departure, and aerial incident detection, just to cite a few. In traffic surveillance, segmenting road information brings special benefits: to automatically...
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