General road detection from a single image

Given a single image of an arbitrary road, that may not be well-paved, or have clearly delineated edges, or some a priori known color or texture distribution, is it possible for a computer to find this road? This paper addresses this question by decomposing the road detection process into two steps:...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE transactions on image processing : a publication of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. - 1992. - 19(2010), 8 vom: 14. Aug., Seite 2211-20
1. Verfasser: Kong, Hui (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Audibert, Jean-Yves, Ponce, Jean
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2010
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:IEEE transactions on image processing : a publication of the IEEE Signal Processing Society
Schlagworte:Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
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Zusammenfassung:Given a single image of an arbitrary road, that may not be well-paved, or have clearly delineated edges, or some a priori known color or texture distribution, is it possible for a computer to find this road? This paper addresses this question by decomposing the road detection process into two steps: the estimation of the vanishing point associated with the main (straight) part of the road, followed by the segmentation of the corresponding road area based upon the detected vanishing point. The main technical contributions of the proposed approach are a novel adaptive soft voting scheme based upon a local voting region using high-confidence voters, whose texture orientations are computed using Gabor filters, and a new vanishing-point-constrained edge detection technique for detecting road boundaries. The proposed method has been implemented, and experiments with 1003 general road images demonstrate that it is effective at detecting road regions in challenging conditions
Beschreibung:Date Completed 29.11.2010
Date Revised 23.07.2010
published: Print-Electronic
Citation Status MEDLINE
ISSN:1941-0042
DOI:10.1109/TIP.2010.2045715