Title :
A simple implementation for unmarked road tracking
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Eng., Cairo Univ., Cairo
Abstract :
This paper presents a simple implementation for unmarked road tracking. It is mainly based on the calculation of road vanishing point position relative to the vehicle. An algorithm is derived to calculate the vanishing point location. This algorithm is made robust by introducing solutions to noisy peeks, unbounded vanishing point location, and irrelevant lines. Also, the paper defines a method to solve surrounding environment inconsistency by adaptation of thresholds. The paper shows experimental results on both modeled and real world environments.
Keywords :
image processing; road vehicles; target tracking; irrelevant lines; real world environments; road vanishing point position; simple implementation; unbounded vanishing point location; unmarked road tracking; vehicle; Image edge detection; Image processing; Mobile robots; Pixel; Remotely operated vehicles; Road vehicles; Robustness; Smoothing methods; Vehicle driving; Vehicle safety; image processing; mobile robots; tracking; vanishing point;
Conference_Titel :
Electrotechnical Conference, 2008. MELECON 2008. The 14th IEEE Mediterranean
Conference_Location :
Ajaccio
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1632-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1633-2
DOI :
10.1109/MELCON.2008.4618556
