{"title":"Dealing with occlusions with multi targets tracking algorithms for the real road context","authors":"L. Lamard, R. Chapuis, Jean-Philippe Boyer","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2012.6232169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2012.6232169","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present a robust approach to occlusion problems for tracking vehicle and pedestrian on road context. Most multi-target tracking algorithms, like Multiple Hypothesis Tracker (MHT) or Cardinalized Probability Hypothesis Density (CPHD), are based on a sensor detection probability map. This paper proposes to solve the occlusion issue by modifying this detection probability map. We assume targets occlusion is provided by other targets and are treated as non detection event. The new detection probability map is computed by taking into account the width and the imprecision of the position of the targets that hide the others. Our system has been validated with simulated data and also with real measurements from a smart camera sensor embedded in a real car for road context.","PeriodicalId":402389,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133803985","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":"May I enter the roundabout? A time-to-contact computation based on stereo-vision","authors":"M. Muffert, Timo Milbich, D. Pfeiffer, Uwe Franke","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2012.6232178","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2012.6232178","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a stereo-vision based system for the recognition of dangerous situations at roundabouts. At first, we investigate the necessary field of view and viewing direction using videos taken by a panoramic camera. Using the insights of these tests we build up a stereo-vision system. This system is based on the well established disparity estimation scheme Semi-Global Matching and the recently introduced medium-level representation called Dynamic Stixel-World. A time-to-contact measure is defined that makes explicit use of the roundabouts structural characteristics. Using this measure enables us to create a system for driver warning or possible automated intervention. Our empirical studies reveal that the warning decision correctly mimics human driver decisions.","PeriodicalId":402389,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115878142","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":"Advanced intersection management for connected vehicles using a multi-agent systems approach","authors":"Qiu Jin, Guoyuan Wu, K. Boriboonsomsin, M. Barth","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2012.6232287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2012.6232287","url":null,"abstract":"Transportation is responsible for approximately a third of greenhouse gases (GHG) and a major source of other pollutants including hydrocarbons (HC), carbon monoxide (CO), and oxides of nitrogen (NOx). Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) technology can be used to lower vehicle emissions and fuel consumption, in addition to reducing traffic congestion, smoothing traffic flow, and improving roadway safety. As wireless communication advances, connected-vehicles-based Advanced Traffic Management Systems (ATMS) have gained significant research interest due to their high potential. In this study, we examine the concept of ATMS for connected vehicles using a multi-agent systems approach, where both vehicle agents and an intersection management agent can take advantage of real-time traffic information exchange. This dynamic strategy allows an intersection management agent to receive state information from vehicle agents, reserve the associated intersection time-space occupancies, and then provide feedback to the vehicles. The vehicle agents then adjust their trajectories to meet their assigned time slot. Based on preliminary simulation experiments, the proposed strategy can significantly reduce fuel consumption and vehicle emissions compared to traditional signal control systems.","PeriodicalId":402389,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114735421","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":"Obstacle detection using sparse stereovision and clustering techniques","authors":"Sébastien Kramm, A. Bensrhair","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2012.6232283","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2012.6232283","url":null,"abstract":"We present a novel technique for localisation of scene elements through sparse stereovision, targeted at obstacle detection. Applications are autonomous driving or robotics. Given a sparse 3D map computed from low-cost features and with many matching errors, we present a technique that can achieve localisation in a real-time context of all potential obstacles in front of the camera pair. We use v-disparity histograms for identifying relevant depth values, and extract from the 3D map successive subsets of points that correspond to these depth values. We apply a clustering step that provides the corresponding elements localisation. These clusters are then used to build a set of potential obstacles, considered as high level primitives. Experimental results on real images are provided.","PeriodicalId":402389,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115111159","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}
Raymond Ghandour, A. Victorino, A. Charara, D. Lechner
{"title":"Risk indicators anticipation based on the vehicle dynamics anticipation to avoid accidents","authors":"Raymond Ghandour, A. Victorino, A. Charara, D. Lechner","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2012.6232224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2012.6232224","url":null,"abstract":"This article leads to the challenging problem of increasing vehicle driving security by applying on boarded intelligent diagnosis systems; it presents a methodology of evaluating, in an anticipated way, the risk of having an accident (skid and rollover). The methodology consists in adopting assumptions about the trajectory, the longitudinal velocity and the longitudinal acceleration in future instants and use these assumptions, allied to previous road information to calculate the future vehicle dynamics parameters. Once calculated, the risk indicators based on these parameters could be predicted in order to expect and avoid possible dangerous situations. These indicators are the lateral load transfer (LTR) based on vertical forces, and the lateral skid indicator (LSI) based ont the maximum friction coefficient and the used friction coefficient. A sliding window system is used to apply the method on the whole trajectory to take into account the vehicle dynamics updates by the driver.","PeriodicalId":402389,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117081493","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":"An evaluation of boosted features for vehicle detection","authors":"Liwei Liu, Genquan Duan, H. Ai, S. Lao","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2012.6232185","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2012.6232185","url":null,"abstract":"Vehicle detection in traffic scenes is a fundamental task for intelligent transportation system and has many practical applications as diverse as traffic monitoring, intelligent scheduling and autonomous navigation. In recent years, the number of detection approaches in monocular images has grown rapidly. However, most of them focus on detecting other objects (such as face, pedestrian, cat, dog, etc.) and also there lacks of vehicle datasets with various conditions for vehicle detection and comprehensive comparisons. To address these problems, we perform an extensive evaluation of many state-of-the-art detection approaches on vehicles. Our main contributions are: (1) we collect a large dataset of real-world vehicles in frontal/rear view with 30° ~ -30° yaw changes and 5° ~ 45° pitch changes under different weather conditions (snowy, rainy, sunny and cloudy) and illumination variations, and then (2) we evaluate six types of state-of-the-art features in Real AdaBoost framework on the adequate dataset collected by ourselves and a public dataset using the same evaluation protocol. Our study presents a fair comparison and deep analysis of these features in vehicle detection. From these experiments, we explore the characteristics of good features for vehicle detection. (3) Finally, we exploit these characteristics and propose a relatively effective and efficient detector, balancing performance, speed and memory cost which can be put into practical use.","PeriodicalId":402389,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128564028","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}
Huijing Zhao, Chao Wang, W. Yao, F. Davoine, J. Cui, H. Zha
{"title":"Omni-directional detection and tracking of on-road vehicles using multiple horizontal laser scanners","authors":"Huijing Zhao, Chao Wang, W. Yao, F. Davoine, J. Cui, H. Zha","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2012.6232161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2012.6232161","url":null,"abstract":"This research aims at generating an omnidirectional perception at the host vehicle's surroundings, extracting accurate and continuous motion trajectories of the nearby vehicles using low cost laser scanners. A system of detecting and tracking on-road vehicles using multiple laser scanners is developed, where focuses are cast on solving data association of simultaneous measurements from multiple sensors at different viewpoints, and state estimation in case of partial observations in dense dynamic situations. Experimental results in freeways in Beijing are presented, system efficiency is demonstrated, where motion trajectories describing driving behaviors such as overtaking, lane changing and other interactions between driving objects are captured. In addition, the accuracy in vehicle detection and tracking is examined using a reference vehicle with a ground truth GPS.","PeriodicalId":402389,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129550015","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}
R. Attia, Jérémie Daniel, Jean-Philippe Lauffenburger, R. Orjuela, M. Basset
{"title":"Reference generation and control strategy for automated vehicle guidance","authors":"R. Attia, Jérémie Daniel, Jean-Philippe Lauffenburger, R. Orjuela, M. Basset","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2012.6232248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2012.6232248","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes a vehicle guidance strategy with a focus placed on the reference generation and the control levels. Further to a perception step, performed through the fusion of a Geographic Information System (GIS) and a vision system, the reference generation leads to the computation of a constrained smooth trajectory and a smooth speed profile integrating safety and comfort criteria. The obtained reference set is then used by a longitudinal and NLMPC-based lateral controller providing the steering angle and traction torque. The complete system performance are presented through simulation results based on real-time measurements.","PeriodicalId":402389,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium","volume":"131 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127032131","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":"Off-vehicle evaluation of camera-based pedestrian detection","authors":"Y. Alon, Aharon Bar-Hillel","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2012.6232160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2012.6232160","url":null,"abstract":"Performance evaluation and comparison of vision-based automotive modules is a growing need in automotive industry. Off-vehicle evaluation, using a database of video streams offers many advantages over on-vehicle evaluation in terms of reduced costs, repeatability and the ability to compare different modules under the same conditions. An off-vehicle evaluation platform for camera based pedestrian detection is presented, enabling evaluation of industrial modules and internally developed algorithms. In order to maintain a single video database despite variability in camera location and internal parameters, experiments were done with video warping techniques, in which a video is warped to look as if taken from a target camera. To obtain ground truth annotation, both manual and Lidar-based methods were tested. Lidar-based annotation was shown to achieve detection rate >; 80% without human intervention, which can go up to 97.5% using a semi-supervised methodology with moderate human effort. Finally, we examined several performance metrics, and found that the image-based detection criteria used in most of the literature does not fit certain automotive application well. A modified criterion based on real world coordinates is suggested.","PeriodicalId":402389,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127310903","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}
Henning Lategahn, Andreas Geiger, B. Kitt, C. Stiller
{"title":"Motion-without-structure: Real-time multipose optimization for accurate visual odometry","authors":"Henning Lategahn, Andreas Geiger, B. Kitt, C. Stiller","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2012.6232235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2012.6232235","url":null,"abstract":"State of the art visual odometry systems use bundle adjustment (BA) like methods to jointly optimize motion and scene structure. Fusing measurements from multiple time steps and optimizing an error criterion in a batch fashion seems to deliver the most accurate results. However, often the scene structure is of no interest and is a mere auxiliary quantity although it contributes heavily to the complexity of the problem. Herein we propose to use a recently developed incremental motion estimator which delivers relative pose displacements between each two frames within a sliding window inducing a pose graph. Moreover, we introduce a method to learn the uncertainty associated with each of the pose displacements. The pose graph is adjusted by non-linear least squares optimization while incorporating a motion model. Thereby we fuse measurements from multiple time steps much in the same sense as BA does. However, we obviate the need to estimate the scene structure yielding a very efficient estimator: Solving the nonlinear least squares problem by a Gauss-Newton method takes approximately 1ms. We show the effectiveness of our method on simulated and real world data and demonstrate substantial improvements over incremental methods.","PeriodicalId":402389,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126916814","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}