{"title":"Development of an particle swarm algorithm for vehicle localization","authors":"Jorge Godoy, D. Gruyer, A. Lambert, J. Villagrá","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2012.6232213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2012.6232213","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the development of a filter algorithm based on the behaviour of biological swarms. The main goal of the algorithm is to perform vehicle localization by combining the data from different sensors - GPS, IMU, speedometers, etc. - and digital maps. In this sense, the algorithm considers several solutions at the same time like Particles Filters. The algorithm has been developed off-line using real data captured from an instrumented vehicle at LIVIC. Performance of the algorithm has been validated and compared with and EKF with encouraging results.","PeriodicalId":402389,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium","volume":"8 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":"121082790","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}
Jens Einsiedler, Oliver Sawade, Bernd Schäufele, Marcus Witzke, I. Radusch
{"title":"Indoor micro navigation utilizing local infrastructure-based positioning","authors":"Jens Einsiedler, Oliver Sawade, Bernd Schäufele, Marcus Witzke, I. Radusch","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2012.6232262","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2012.6232262","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we present an indoor micronavigation system for enclosed parking garages. It builds on car-to-infrastructure communication to provide layout information of the car park, the coordinates of the destination parking lot, as well as external positioning information to vehicles. In our approach we use customary network video cameras to detect and locate vehicles within the car park. Once a vehicle is detected, the system correlates the position of the vehicle to the car park layout and transmits this information to the appropriate vehicle to substitute the internal positioning system. With this information the vehicle is guided from the car park entrance to a destination parking lot.","PeriodicalId":402389,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium","volume":"449 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":"122798452","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":"Image based fog detection in vehicles","authors":"M. Pavlic, H. Belzner, G. Rigoll, Slobodan Ilic","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2012.6232256","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2012.6232256","url":null,"abstract":"Modern vehicles are equipped with many cameras and their use in many practical applications is extensive. Detecting the presence of fog from images of a camera mounted in vehicles is a very challenging task with the potential to be used in many practical applications. Approaches introduced until now analyze properties of local objects in the image like lane markings, traffic signs, back lights of vehicles in front or head lights of approaching vehicles. By contrast to all these related works we propose to use image descriptors and a classification procedure in order to distinguish images with fog present from those free of fog. These image descriptors are global and describe the entire image using Gabor filters at different frequencies, scales and orientations. Our experiments demonstrated hight potential of the proposed method for fog detection on daytime images.","PeriodicalId":402389,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium","volume":"19 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":"129974711","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}
Hossein Tehrani Niknejad, Taiki Kawano, Mikio Shimizu, S. Mita
{"title":"Vehicle detection using discriminatively trained part templates with variable size","authors":"Hossein Tehrani Niknejad, Taiki Kawano, Mikio Shimizu, S. Mita","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2012.6232284","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2012.6232284","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction of new local and semi-local features has played an important role in advancing the performance of object recognitions. Deformable part models prepare elegant framework for representing object categories and both efficient and accurate, achieving state-of the-art results. In this paper, We consider the problem of training a part-based model with variable size from images labeled only with bounding boxes around the objects. We consider part size as a latent variable and try to optimize simultaneously size and place of part templates to cover high-energy regions of the object. Extensive experiments in urban scenarios for vehicle detection show that the average precision of deformable part model significantly is improved from 72.10% to 82.41% without losing the average recall.","PeriodicalId":402389,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium","volume":"1 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":"130281849","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":"Cooperative multi-vehicle localization using split covariance intersection filter","authors":"Hao Li, F. Nashashibi","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2012.6232155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2012.6232155","url":null,"abstract":"Vehicle localization (ground vehicles) is an important task for intelligent vehicle systems and vehicle cooperation may bring benefits for this task. A new cooperative multi-vehicle localization method using split covariance intersection filter is proposed in this paper. In the proposed method, each vehicle maintains an estimate of a decomposed group state and this estimate is shared with neighboring vehicles; the estimate of the decomposed group state is updated with both the sensor data of the ego-vehicle and the estimates sent from other vehicles; the covariance intersection filter which yields consistent estimates even facing unknown degree of inter-estimate correlation has been used for data fusion. A comparative study based simulations demonstrate the effectiveness and the advantage of the proposed cooperative localization method.","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":"130572826","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}
Hongxiao Yu, Jian-wei Gong, K. Iagnemma, Yan Jiang, Jianmin Duan
{"title":"Robotic wheeled vehicle ripple tentacles motion planning method","authors":"Hongxiao Yu, Jian-wei Gong, K. Iagnemma, Yan Jiang, Jianmin Duan","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2012.6232292","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2012.6232292","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes a nonholonomic robotic wheeled vehicle ripple tentacle motion planning method, aiming to improve the vehicle's trajectory smoothness and avoid frequent weight parameters adjustment in different environments. In the regular tentacle motion planning algorithm, the planning result is selected among the drivable tentacles using a weighted sum cost function. Though the method is simple and easy to understand, it is difficult to adjust the weighted coefficients in different environments. To solve this problem, a geometrical ripple tentacles technique is used to choose a tentacle as a sub-optimal path. Compared with the regular tentacles algorithm, the proposed ripple tentacle algorithm can get a better performance in vehicle's trajectory smoothness with an acceptable runtime expense. And another two traits can also distinguish this method: (a) it can avoid weight parameter adjustment in different environments and varied vehicle's states, and (b) it can be used in both unknown environment and partly known environment with goal point and global reference path. In the totally unknown environment, it acts as a pure obstacle avoidance algorithm, and when there is a global path, it can follow the reference path and avoid hazards simultaneously.","PeriodicalId":402389,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium","volume":"1 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":"130845396","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}
Daniel Westhofen, Carolin Grundler, Konrad Doll, U. Brunsmann, S. Zecha
{"title":"Transponder- and Camera-based advanced driver assistance system","authors":"Daniel Westhofen, Carolin Grundler, Konrad Doll, U. Brunsmann, S. Zecha","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2012.6232140","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2012.6232140","url":null,"abstract":"Cooperative traffic safety is a straightforward approach for a significant reduction of accidents and fatalities. This paper presents a predictive safety system based on a cooperative localization technology using transponders combined with a monocular camera. By means of these sensor components other traffic partners in the surrounding area are recognized and tracked even in case of occlusion. Using the pedestrian detections of the transponder system for the generation of regions of interest (ROI), video-based confirmation is achieved in real-time using histograms of oriented gradients (HOG). An extended Kalman filter is applied to cope with adapted nonlinear process and measurement models for transponder-based tracking, including methods for compensation of the vehicle's ego motion and sensor mounting offsets. The collision risk with other traffic partners especially pedestrians is assessed by using sophisticated motion models based on empirical data. In an experimental study of real-world scenarios it is demonstrated that the fusion of the sensor data results in a reliable prediction of upcoming collision risks and enables a specific warning or a justified autonomous brake maneuver in order to avoid a collision. The results confirm excellent detection, tracking and real-time performance and emphasize the potential of transponder-based active safety systems.","PeriodicalId":402389,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium","volume":"104 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":"127145759","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":"Incorporating environmental knowledge into Bayesian filtering using attractor functions","authors":"Andreas Alin, Martin Volker Butz, J. Fritsch","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2012.6232193","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2012.6232193","url":null,"abstract":"Many automotive systems use linear approaches to track and predict other traffic participants. While this may be appropriate on highways, linear predictions do not work properly on curved roads or lane crossings. This contribution introduces a generic way for including environmental knowledge - such as the lane trajectory ahead - to anticipate yaw rate and acceleration of other traffic participants. The anticipatory knowledge is used to improve prediction in filtering tasks. It is embedded in a Bayesian framework by introducing attractors, which modify the probabilistic propagation of state estimations. The attractors model how traffic participants typically behave, given environmental knowledge such as lane information, traffic lights, or indicator lights. We demonstrate the potential of this approach by modeling the fact that vehicles usually stay in their lane. We show that given correct context information and nonlinear traffic situations, the tracking error is considerably lower compared to conventional tracking methods. In addition, we also show that the intentions of other traffic participants may be inferred by comparing actual sensory data with anticipated probability distributions, which were generated dependent on alternative attractors.","PeriodicalId":402389,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium","volume":"34 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":"130795375","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 new collision warning system for lead vehicles in rear-end collisions","authors":"Adrian Cabrera, Sven Gowal, A. Martinoli","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2012.6232244","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2012.6232244","url":null,"abstract":"Collision Warning Systems (CWS) are safety systems designed to warn the driver about an imminent collision. A CWS monitors the dynamic state of the traffic in realtime by processing information from various proprioceptive and exteroceptive sensors. It assesses the potential threat level and decides whether a warning should be issued to the driver through auditory and/or visual signals. Several measures have already been defined for threat assessment and various CWS have been proposed in literature. In this paper, we will focus on two time-based measures that assess both front and rear collision threats. In particular, a new threat metric, the time-to-last-second-acceleration (Tlsa), for lead vehicles in rear-end collision is proposed and compared with its counterpart, the time-to-last-second-braking (Tlsb) [18]. The Tlsa is a novel time-based approach that focuses on the lead vehicle (as opposed to the following vehicle). It inherits the properties of the Tlsb and, as such, is coherent with the human judgement of urgency and severity of threats. It directly quantifies the threat level of the current dynamic situation before a required evasive action (i.e. maximum acceleration) needs to be applied. Furthermore, different warning thresholds are proposed by considering the average driver reaction time. Its effect on decreasing the severity of a rear-end collision is studied and its reliability is tested using a well-established physics-based robotics simulator, namely Webots [13].","PeriodicalId":402389,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium","volume":"493 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":"132792241","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}
Adam Houénou, P. Bonnifait, V. Berge-Cherfaoui, Jean-François Boissou
{"title":"A track-to-track association method for automotive perception systems","authors":"Adam Houénou, P. Bonnifait, V. Berge-Cherfaoui, Jean-François Boissou","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2012.6232261","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2012.6232261","url":null,"abstract":"Recent and future driver assistance systems use more and more sensors, that have individual tracking modules. For target tracking, it becomes necessary to find techniques to manage as simply as possible the use of a great number of independent and heterogeneous sensors, at the different stages of the process. This paper presents a modular highlevel track-fusion architecture for a multisensor environment. This architecture allows the variation of the number and the types of the used sensors with no major change in the tracking algorithm. The paper also tackles the multisensor track-to-track association issue with a new algorithm based on a particular track-to-track distance computation. An example of target tracking method is shown to make use of the proposed architecture and the track-to-track association algorithm.","PeriodicalId":402389,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium","volume":"35 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":"134619511","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}