Detection of Raindrop with Various Shapes on aWindshield

Junki Ishizuka, Kazunori Onoguchi

2016

Abstract

This paper presents the method to detect raindrops with various shapes on a windshield from an in-vehicle single camera. Raindrops on a windshield causes various bad influence for video-based automobile applications, such as pedestrian detection, lane detection and so on. Therefore, it’s important to understand the state of the raindrop on a windshield for a driving safety support system or an automatic driving vehicle. Although conventional methods are considered on isolated spherical raindrops, our method can be applied to raindrops with various shapes, e.g. a band-like shape. In the daytime, our method detects raindrop candidates by examining the difference of the blur between the surrounding areas. We uses the ratio of the edge strength extracted from two kinds of smoothed images as the degree of the blur. At night, bright areas whose intensity does not change so much are detected as raindrops.

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in Harvard Style

Ishizuka J. and Onoguchi K. (2016). Detection of Raindrop with Various Shapes on aWindshield . In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - Volume 1: ICPRAM, ISBN 978-989-758-173-1, pages 475-483. DOI: 10.5220/0005796004750483


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icpram16,
author={Junki Ishizuka and Kazunori Onoguchi},
title={Detection of Raindrop with Various Shapes on aWindshield},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - Volume 1: ICPRAM,},
year={2016},
pages={475-483},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005796004750483},
isbn={978-989-758-173-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - Volume 1: ICPRAM,
TI - Detection of Raindrop with Various Shapes on aWindshield
SN - 978-989-758-173-1
AU - Ishizuka J.
AU - Onoguchi K.
PY - 2016
SP - 475
EP - 483
DO - 10.5220/0005796004750483