REAL TIME OBJECT DELIMITERS EXTRACTION FOR ENVIRONMENT REPRESENTATION IN DRIVING SCENARIOS

Andrei Vatavu, Sergiu Nedevschi, Florin Oniga

2009

Abstract

The environment representation is essential for driving assistance. However, the performances achieved in complex environments are still unsatisfactory regarding the accuracy, confidence and real time capabilities. This paper presents a real-time 2.5D environment representation model, for driving scenarios, based on object delimiters extraction from a 3D occupancy grid obtained from dense stereo. We propose two approaches to extract the polyline delimiters: an improved contour tracing called 3A Tracing and a polyline extraction method through the occupancy grid radial scanning. The advantages and drawbacks for each of these methods have been discussed.

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Vatavu A., Nedevschi S. and Oniga F. (2009). REAL TIME OBJECT DELIMITERS EXTRACTION FOR ENVIRONMENT REPRESENTATION IN DRIVING SCENARIOS . In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO, ISBN 978-989-674-000-9, pages 86-93. DOI: 10.5220/0002210400860093


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@conference{icinco09,
author={Andrei Vatavu and Sergiu Nedevschi and Florin Oniga},
title={REAL TIME OBJECT DELIMITERS EXTRACTION FOR ENVIRONMENT REPRESENTATION IN DRIVING SCENARIOS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO,},
year={2009},
pages={86-93},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002210400860093},
isbn={978-989-674-000-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO,
TI - REAL TIME OBJECT DELIMITERS EXTRACTION FOR ENVIRONMENT REPRESENTATION IN DRIVING SCENARIOS
SN - 978-989-674-000-9
AU - Vatavu A.
AU - Nedevschi S.
AU - Oniga F.
PY - 2009
SP - 86
EP - 93
DO - 10.5220/0002210400860093