Vehicle identification technique using active laser radar system

Author

Yano, Tatsuro ; Tsujimura, Takeshi ; Yoshida, Koichi

Author_Institution

NTT Access Network Service Syst. Labs., NTT Corp., Tokyo, Japan

fYear

2003

fDate

30 July-1 Aug. 2003

Firstpage

275

Lastpage

280

Abstract

This paper describes a laser radar system equipped with a laser range finder and mounted on pan-tilt equipment. We propose a method for estimating vehicle direction using this system, and report experiments designed to confirm that the direction could be estimated to within four degrees. In addition, we measured vehicle shapes using the estimated results, and distinguished the vehicle model, thus confirming the effectiveness of our laser radar system.

Keywords

automated highways; automobiles; image recognition; image sensors; laser ranging; optical radar; optical tracking; position measurement; target tracking; Hough transform; active laser radar system; laser range finder; pan-tilt equipment; parking; vehicle direction estimation; vehicle distinction; vehicle identification; vehicle model distinction; vehicle shape measurement; Area measurement; Laser beams; Laser modes; Laser radar; Position measurement; Radar equipment; Radar measurements; Shape measurement; Time measurement; Vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems, MFI2003. Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7987-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MFI-2003.2003.1232670

Filename

1232670