{"title":"Automatic extrinsic calibration methods for Surround View Systems","authors":"K. Natroshvili, Kay-Ulrich Scholl","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2017.7995702","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2017.7995702","url":null,"abstract":"A typical Surround View System consists of several cameras on the vehicle perimeter. This document proposes three novel methods for the extrinsic calibration of Surround View Systems (SVS). I — The first approach uses a single calibration pattern placed step-by-step on the vehicle perimeter. II — The second approach uses several calibration patterns placed on the ground plane. The vehicle drives between the calibration setup. No knowledge of the vehicle's location relative to the calibration patterns is necessary; only distances between the calibration patterns are required. III — The last approach gives the most flexibility in calibration. The features are distributed on the ground plane arbitrarily. The vehicle drives forward and backward and all extrinsic calibration parameters are automatically estimated. Each of these approaches provide very good calibration results, sufficient for the correct operation of SVS.","PeriodicalId":143367,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV)","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134128793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
W. Zhan, Jianyu Chen, Ching-yao Chan, Changliu Liu, M. Tomizuka
{"title":"Spatially-partitioned environmental representation and planning architecture for on-road autonomous driving","authors":"W. Zhan, Jianyu Chen, Ching-yao Chan, Changliu Liu, M. Tomizuka","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2017.7995789","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2017.7995789","url":null,"abstract":"Conventional layered planning architecture temporally partitions the spatiotemporal motion planning by the path and speed, which is not suitable for lane change and overtaking scenarios with moving obstacles. In this paper, we propose to spatially partition the motion planning by longitudinal and lateral motions along the rough reference path in the Frenét Frame, which makes it possible to create linearized safety constraints for each layer in a variety of on-road driving scenarios. A generic environmental representation methodology is proposed with three topological elements and corresponding longitudinal constraints to compose all driving scenarios mentioned in this paper according to the overlap between the potential path of the autonomous vehicle and predicted path of other road users. Planners combining A∗ search and quadratic programming (QP) are designed to plan both rough long-term longitudinal motions and short-term trajectories to exploit the advantages of both search-based and optimization-based methods. Limits of vehicle kinematics and dynamics are considered in the planners to handle extreme cases. Simulation results show that the proposed framework can plan collision-free motions with high driving quality under complicated scenarios and emergency situations.","PeriodicalId":143367,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV)","volume":"99 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133456734","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"SPOT: A tool for set-based prediction of traffic participants","authors":"Markus Koschi, M. Althoff","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2017.7995951","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2017.7995951","url":null,"abstract":"Predicting the movement of other traffic participants is an integral part in the motion planning of most automated road vehicles. While simple predictions, e.g. based on assuming constant velocity, may suffice for deciding a driving strategy, predicting the set of all possible behaviors is required to ensure safe motion plans. In this work, we propose a novel tool for the latter problem based on reachability analysis: Set-Based Prediction Of Traffic Participants (SPOT). Our tool can predict the future occupancy of other traffic participants, including all possible maneuvers (e.g. full acceleration, full braking, and arbitrary lane changes), by considering physical constraints and assuming that the traffic participants abide by the traffic rules. However, we remove assumptions for each traffic participant individually as soon as a violation of a traffic rule is detected. Removal of assumptions automatically results in larger occupancies and thus a smaller drivable area for the ego vehicle, ensuring that the ego vehicle does not cause a collision during the time horizon of the prediction. Experimental results show that we obtain the set of future occupancies within a fraction of the prediction horizon. Our tool is available at spot.in.tum.de.","PeriodicalId":143367,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131554294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A platoon-based intersection management system for autonomous vehicles","authors":"M. Bashiri, C. Fleming","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2017.7995794","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2017.7995794","url":null,"abstract":"Recent advancements in Intelligent Transportation Systems suggest that the roads will gradually be filled with autonomous vehicles that are able to drive themselves while communicating with each other and the infrastructure. Autonomous intersection management is among the more challenging traffic scenarios, which involves coordinating the movement of autonomous vehicles through a conflict zone. Intersection management is also potentially one of the more beneficial traffic scenarios in terms of mobility and environmental impact. In this paper we propose a platoon-based approach for the cooperative intersection management problem. We assert that leveraging the platooning capability of autonomous vehicles could improve the efficiency of any policy at an intersection, in terms of average delay time per vehicle and can reduce the communication overhead in the vicinity of intersections by a factor of up to the average platoon size. We also develop a new autonomous intersection management method that guarantees the safety of traffic by allowing one platoon in the conflict zone at any time. We examine the effects of platooning on a simple stop sign at a single 4-way intersection in a simulated environment and report the results in terms of average delay per vehicle and communication overhead. Moreover, we evaluate the performance of the proposed method in a simulated environment and compare the results in terms of average wait time per vehicle and variance in delay with that of a stop sign.","PeriodicalId":143367,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV)","volume":"286 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131680585","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Driver-automation indirect shared control of highly automated vehicles with intention-aware authority transition","authors":"Renjie Li, Yanan Li, S. Li, E. Burdet, B. Cheng","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2017.7995694","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2017.7995694","url":null,"abstract":"Shared control is an important approach to avoid the driver-out-of-the-loop problems brought by imperfect autonomous driving. Steer-by-wire technology allows the mechanical decoupling between the steering wheel and the road wheels. On steer-by-wire vehicles, the automation can join the control loop by correcting the driver steering input, which forms a new paradigm of shared control. The new framework, under which the driver indirectly controls the vehicle through the automation's input transformation, is called indirect shared control. This paper presents an indirect shared control system, which realizes the dynamic control authority allocation with respect to the driver's authority intention. The simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness and benefits of the proposed control authority adaptation method.","PeriodicalId":143367,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114837359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Increasing anthropomorphism and trust in automated driving functions by adding speech output","authors":"Yannick Forster, Frederik Naujoks, A. Neukum","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2017.7995746","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2017.7995746","url":null,"abstract":"Conditionally Automated Driving (CAD) functions need to be carefully examined regarding related driver attitudes such as trust and usability to increase their acceptance among future system users. By adding speech output to an existing audio-visual Human-Machine Interface (HMI), the level of trust in automation was suspected to be increased due to semantic information and the application of anthropomorphic features such as voice and gender. To test this assumption, N = 17 drivers completed two simulator drives, once with ('Speech + generic') and once without additional speech output (‘Generic’). Having interacted with the automated system in different scenarios (i.e., letting the system execute a maneuver vs. taking over control from the vehicle), drivers completed comparative questionnaires on trust, anthropomorphism and usability. The applied questionnaire on trust in automation was structured after theoretical implications and derived from previous research on trust in automation. Results showed that the ‘Speech + generic’ system was rated as superior for all three attitude measures compared to the ‘Generic’ system. Furthermore, the present study describes a first approach on comprehensively examining trust in vehicle automation. We brought forth evidence that speech output is highly relevant in order to improve driver attitudes that affect acceptance of automated systems.","PeriodicalId":143367,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115301384","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yeqiang Qian, Ming Yang, Chunxiang Wang, Bing Wang
{"title":"Self-adapting part-based pedestrian detection using a fish-eye camera","authors":"Yeqiang Qian, Ming Yang, Chunxiang Wang, Bing Wang","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2017.7995695","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2017.7995695","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, fish-eye cameras play an increasingly important role in intelligent vehicles because of its wide field of view. Using fish-eye camera, pedestrians around the vehicles could be monitored expediently, but the problem of pedestrian distortion has always existed. This paper creates a new warping pedestrian benchmark using imaging principle of the fish-eye camera based on ETH pedestrian benchmark. With this practical benchmark, warping pedestrians are trained differently according to the position in fish-eye images. A self-adapting part-based algorithm is proposed to detect pedestrian with different degrees of deformation. Moreover, GPU is used to accelerate the whole algorithm to guarantee the real-time performance. Experiments show that the algorithm has competitive accuracy.","PeriodicalId":143367,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116991909","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sensor-based road model estimation for autonomous driving","authors":"Julian Thomas, R. Rojas","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2017.7995962","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2017.7995962","url":null,"abstract":"In the course of the development and integration of the autonomous driving the knowledge about the current environment and especially the road is one of the basic requirements to fulfill the automated driving task. This information is often extracted from a precise map provided in the vehicle. Therefore the road course and the individual lanes are known in advance by using the map and a suitable ego position estimation. However, in some situations such a map may be invalid and therefore unusable. This can be a driving area which was never mapped or regions where the map is outdated because the environment has changed. The following paper addresses the problem of building a road model without using a map by only fusing measurements from different sensors mounted on the ego vehicle. As sensor measurements various information like lane markings painted on the ground, the position of other cars or occupancy grids can be used. They are transformed into a grid-based model and a geometrical description is extracted out of this model by the use of a novel path-planning based method. The proposed approach was tested with a vehicle equipped with sensors and real measurement data from German highways.","PeriodicalId":143367,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115095043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Sefati, Magnus Daum, Bjoern Sondermann, K. Kreisköther, A. Kampker
{"title":"Improving vehicle localization using semantic and pole-like landmarks","authors":"M. Sefati, Magnus Daum, Bjoern Sondermann, K. Kreisköther, A. Kampker","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2017.7995692","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2017.7995692","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present a framework for vehicle self-localization in urban environments. It utilizes semantic and distinctive physical objects such as trees, traffic signs or street lamps as robust landmarks and deduces the global vehicle pose in conjunction with an offline map. Since it is independent from the availability of road markings and the knowledge of street courses, application in dense urban areas with high rates dynamic objects and road users is possible. This paper introduces novel methods for vehicular environment perception via LiDAR scanner and stereo camera, as well as models for their association with a high-precision digital map to estimate the vehicle's position via Adaptive Monte-Carlo Localization. Evaluation in urban areas indicates the potential for global positioning accuracy below 0.30 m for LiDAR and below 0.50 m for stereo camera, as well as a corresponding heading error below 1°.","PeriodicalId":143367,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134112714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Domain-specific data augmentation for on-road object detection based on a deep neural network","authors":"Huien Kim, Youngwan Lee, Hakil Kim, X. Cui","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2017.7995705","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2017.7995705","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a data augmentation strategy for improving on-road object detection based on a deep neural network. The method uses a single camera and detects objects based on an optimized deep neural network for a driving environment. The strategy also uses a single-shot multi-box detector (SSD) for object detection, which is a state-of-the-art deep-learning algorithm. The performance is improved by using data augmentation for an advanced driver assist system (ADAS) specific to on-road object recognition. The problem of object detection is first analyzed based on a deep neural network in the ADAS domain, and then representative object detection methods that use deep neural networks are surveyed. A restricted random crop process is suggested for detecting small objects in an image, and then a patch resampling strategy is proposed for solving the long tail property in an on-road dataset. The proposed ADAS domain-specific data augmentation method is adjusted for the original object detection method based on a deep neural network. The object detection results were evaluated using an embedded board on the KITTI benchmark dataset, and the suggested data augmentation method improves the average precision by 30%.","PeriodicalId":143367,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV)","volume":"102 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115443366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}