ROAD INTERPRETATION FOR DRIVER ASSISTANCE BASED ON AN EARLY COGNITIVE VISION SYSTEM

Emre Başeski, Lars Baunegaard With Jensen, Nicolas Pugeault, Florian Pilz, Karl Pauwels, Marc M. Van Hulle, Florentin Wörgötter, Norbert Krüger

2009

Abstract

In this work, we address the problem of road interpretation for driver assistance based on an early cognitive vision system. The structure of a road and the relevant traffic are interpreted in terms of ego-motion estimation of the car, independently moving objects on the road, lane markers and large scale maps of the road. We make use of temporal and spatial disambiguation mechanisms to increase the reliability of visually extracted 2D and 3D information. This information is then used to interpret the layout of the road by using lane markers that are detected via Bayesian reasoning. We also estimate the ego-motion of the car which is used to create large scale maps of the road and also to detect independently moving objects. Sample results for the presented algorithms are shown on a stereo image sequence, that has been collected from a structured road.

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Başeski E., Baunegaard With Jensen L., Pugeault N., Pilz F., Pauwels K., M. Van Hulle M., Wörgötter F. and Krüger N. (2009). ROAD INTERPRETATION FOR DRIVER ASSISTANCE BASED ON AN EARLY COGNITIVE VISION SYSTEM . In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009) ISBN 978-989-8111-69-2, pages 496-505. DOI: 10.5220/0001796104960505


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@conference{visapp09,
author={Emre Başeski and Lars Baunegaard With Jensen and Nicolas Pugeault and Florian Pilz and Karl Pauwels and Marc M. Van Hulle and Florentin Wörgötter and Norbert Krüger},
title={ROAD INTERPRETATION FOR DRIVER ASSISTANCE BASED ON AN EARLY COGNITIVE VISION SYSTEM},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009)},
year={2009},
pages={496-505},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001796104960505},
isbn={978-989-8111-69-2},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009)
TI - ROAD INTERPRETATION FOR DRIVER ASSISTANCE BASED ON AN EARLY COGNITIVE VISION SYSTEM
SN - 978-989-8111-69-2
AU - Başeski E.
AU - Baunegaard With Jensen L.
AU - Pugeault N.
AU - Pilz F.
AU - Pauwels K.
AU - M. Van Hulle M.
AU - Wörgötter F.
AU - Krüger N.
PY - 2009
SP - 496
EP - 505
DO - 10.5220/0001796104960505