Carolina Tripp Barba, M. Mateos, Pablo Regañas Soto, A. M. Mezher, M. Aguilar-Igartua
{"title":"Smart city for VANETs using warning messages, traffic statistics and intelligent traffic lights","authors":"Carolina Tripp Barba, M. Mateos, Pablo Regañas Soto, A. M. Mezher, M. Aguilar-Igartua","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2012.6232229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2012.6232229","url":null,"abstract":"Road safety has become a main issue for governments and car manufacturers in the last twenty years. The development of new vehicular technologies has favoured companies, researchers and institutions to focus their efforts on improving road safety. During the last decades, the evolution of wireless technologies has allowed researchers to design communication systems where vehicles participate in the communication networks. Thus, new types of networks, such as Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs), have been created to facilitate communication between vehicles themselves and between vehicles and infrastructure. New concepts where vehicular networks play an important role have appeared the last years, such as smart cities and living labs [1]. Smart cities include intelligent traffic management in which data from the TIC (Traffic Information Centre) infrastructures could be reachable at any point. To test the possibilities of these future cities, living labs (cities in which new designed systems can be tested in real conditions) have been created all over Europe. The goal of our framework is to transmit information about the traffic conditions to help the driver (or the vehicle itself) take adequate decisions. In this work, the development of a warning system composed of Intelligent Traffic Lights (ITLs) that provides information to drivers about traffic density and weather conditions in the streets of a city is proposed and evaluated through simulations.","PeriodicalId":402389,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium","volume":"47 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":"127031147","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":"Experts of probabilistic flow subspaces for robust monocular odometry in urban areas","authors":"Christian Herdtweck, Cristóbal Curio","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2012.6232238","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2012.6232238","url":null,"abstract":"Visual odometry has been promoted as a fundamental component for intelligent vehicles. Relying solely on monocular image cues would be desirable. Nevertheless, this is a challenge especially in dynamically varying urban areas due to scale ambiguities, independent motions, and measurement noise. We propose to use probabilistic learning with auxiliar depth cues. Specifically, we developed an expert model that specializes monocular egomotion estimation units on typical scene structures, i.e. statistical variations of scene depth layouts. The framework adaptively selects the best fitting expert. For on-line estimation of egomotion, we adopted a probabilistic subspace flow estimation method. Learning in our framework consists of two components: 1) Partitioning of datasets of video and ground truth odometry data based on unsupervised clustering of dense stereo depth profiles and 2) training a cascade of subspace flow expert models. A probabilistic quality measure from the estimates of the experts provides a selection rule overall leading to improvements of egomotion estimation for long test sequences.","PeriodicalId":402389,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium","volume":"48 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":"126654439","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}
T. Taniguchi, Shogo Nagasaka, K. Hitomi, N. P. Chandrasiri, T. Bando
{"title":"Semiotic prediction of driving behavior using unsupervised double articulation analyzer","authors":"T. Taniguchi, Shogo Nagasaka, K. Hitomi, N. P. Chandrasiri, T. Bando","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2012.6232243","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2012.6232243","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose a novel semiotic prediction method for driving behavior based on double articulation structure. It has been reported that predicting driving behavior from its multivariate time series behavior data by using machine learning methods, e.g., hybrid dynamical system, hidden Markov model and Gaussian mixture model, is difficult because a driver's behavior is affected by various contextual information. To overcome this problem, we assume that contextual information has a double articulation structure and develop a novel semiotic prediction method by extending nonparametric Bayesian unsupervised morphological analyzer. Effectiveness of our prediction method was evaluated using synthetic data and real driving data. In these experiments, the proposed method achieved long-term prediction 2-6 times longer than some conventional methods.","PeriodicalId":402389,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium","volume":"15 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":"126808108","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":"Frontal object perception using radar and mono-vision","authors":"R. García, J. Burlet, Trung-Dung Vu, O. Aycard","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2012.6232307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2012.6232307","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we detail a complete software architecture of a key task that an intelligent vehicle has to deal with: frontal object perception. This task is solved by processing raw data of a radar and a mono-camera to detect and track moving objects. Data sets obtained from highways, country roads and urban areas were used to test the proposed method. Several experiments were conducted to show that the proposed method obtains a better environment representation, i.e., reduces the false alarms and missed detections from individual sensor evidence.","PeriodicalId":402389,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium","volume":"13 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":"127210115","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's authority monitoring system for intelligent vehicles: A feasibility study","authors":"Pinar Uluer, Can Gocmenoglu, T. Acarman","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2012.6232290","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2012.6232290","url":null,"abstract":"One of the most challenging factors in the development of autonomous vehicles and advanced driver assistance systems is the imitation of an expert driver system which is the observer and interpreter of the technical system in the related driving scenario. In this paper, a multimodal adaptive driver assistance system is presented. The main goal is to determine the human driver's attention and authority level by decoupling the driver's vehicle control in the longitudinal and lateral direction in order to trigger timely warnings according to his/her driving intents and driving skills with respect to the possible driving situation and hazard scenarios. The presented driver assistance system considers the driver's driving performance metric sampled during the longitudinal and lateral vehicle control tasks as well as the processed information about the surrounding traffic environment consisting of the interactions with the other vehicles and the road situations. Experiments on a simulator are performed and the presented metric is calculated for the evaluation of the human driver's driving performance with respect to adaptive cruising and obstacle avoidance maneuvering tasks.","PeriodicalId":402389,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium","volume":"71 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":"122136356","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}
Marc Schlipsing, J. Salmen, B. Lattke, K. Schröter, H. Winner
{"title":"Roll angle estimation for motorcycles: Comparing video and inertial sensor approaches","authors":"Marc Schlipsing, J. Salmen, B. Lattke, K. Schröter, H. Winner","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2012.6232200","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2012.6232200","url":null,"abstract":"Advanced Rider Assistance Systems (ARAS) for powered two-wheelers improve driving behaviour and safety. Further developments of intelligent vehicles will also include video-based systems, which are successfully deployed in cars. Porting such modules to motorcycles, the camera pose has to be taken into account, as e. g. large roll angles produce significant variations in the recorded images. Therefore, roll angle estimation is an important task for the development of various kinds of ARAS. This study introduces alternative approaches based on inertial measurement units (IMU) as well as video only. The latter learns orientation distributions of image gradients that code the current roll angle. Until now only preliminary results on synthetic data have been published. Here, an evaluation on real video data will be presented along with three valuable improvements and an extensive parameter optimisation using the Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy. For comparison of the very dissimilar approaches a test vehicle is equipped with IMU, camera and a highly accurate reference sensor. The results state high performance of about 2 degrees error for the improved vision method and, therefore proofs the proposed concept on real-world data. The IMU-based Kalman filter estimation performed on par. As a naive result averaging of both estimates already increased performance an elaborate fusion of the proposed methods is expected to yield further improvements.","PeriodicalId":402389,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium","volume":"100 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":"123191153","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":"Predictive maneuver evaluation for enhancement of Car-to-X mobility data","authors":"J. Firl, Hagen Stübing, S. Huss, C. Stiller","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2012.6232217","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2012.6232217","url":null,"abstract":"Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) employ single object information to provide safety, comfort, or infotainment features. The required data is mainly extracted from external sensors to recognize and predict the future states of relevant traffic participants. Next generation ADAS will also use data from additional sources like, e.g., Car-to-X communication networks, to avoid some typical restrictions of common sensor setups. In this work, we present a method, which uses information on other traffic participants, and furthermore recognizes and considers their interactions in terms of traffic maneuvers to better predict their states. For this purpose, a probabilistic framework is presented, which recognizes object interactions as well as different road characteristics by introducing local, adaptive occupancy grids. The resulting maneuver recognition is shown to considerably improve received mobility data in terms of position, speed, and heading. These concepts have been fully implemented and evaluated by means of real world experiments.","PeriodicalId":402389,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium","volume":"28 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":"130433104","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":"Validation of reference laboratories to put in service Railway projects (tracks and trains)","authors":"J. Tamarit, Daniel Molina, Jose Bueno","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2012.6232258","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2012.6232258","url":null,"abstract":"The Railway Interoperability Laboratory of CEDEX contributes to the process of placing Railway projects into service using reference tools loaded with project data and with real equipment connected. This strategy provides a more efficient and controlled environment, assures the interoperability of the project and facilitates the integration track/ train. The validation of the Laboratory by comparing track and laboratory records makes acceptable the laboratory tests for the safety departments of the Infrastructure Managers and Operators. This communication provides an overview of the process of the laboratory validation.","PeriodicalId":402389,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium","volume":"96 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":"116562368","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}
Yanhua Jiang, Huiyan Chen, Guang-ming Xiong, Jian-wei Gong, Yan Jiang
{"title":"Kinematic constraints in visual odometry of intelligent vehicles","authors":"Yanhua Jiang, Huiyan Chen, Guang-ming Xiong, Jian-wei Gong, Yan Jiang","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2012.6232230","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2012.6232230","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a novel method to realize on-board visual odometry system. Vehicular kinematic constrain is used in the motion estimation algorithms. The work is a extension from planar steering model to 3-dof in which vehicle's motion is modeled more reasonable and accurate. By virtue of appropriate simplification, the close-form solution of motion parameters can be obtained only need to find real roots of a cubic equation. Then optimization based refine method can bring the winner solution to accurate solution utilizing inliers founded. The algorithm has been tested on both simulation platform and real car test and achieved promising results.","PeriodicalId":402389,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium","volume":"65 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":"122222733","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":"Lane recognition for moving vehicles using multiple on-car RFID receiver antennas — Algorithm and its experimental results","authors":"H. Togashi, C. Borcea, S. Yamada","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2012.6232139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2012.6232139","url":null,"abstract":"Accurate lane recognition for moving vehicles is important for lane keeping and lane changing assistance systems. Additionally, this information could be leveraged by Intelligent Transportation Systems to suggest lane changes for improved traffic load balancing across lanes. This paper presents a position estimation algorithm for moving vehicles based on RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) active sensors placed on roadsides and lane boundaries, and multiple on-car RFID receiver antennas. To improve localization accuracy, the algorithm proposes two novel ideas: (1) compute pair-wise position estimates using the RSSI (Received Signal Strength Indication) of all pairs of signals received from RFIDs, and (2) compute the final position as a weighted average of these pair-wise estimates using a dynamic weighting function that assigns higher weights to positions estimated based on closer RFIDs. The results from our field experiments indicate that the proposed method achieves 0.7-meter localization accuracy when RFIDs are placed at 0.5-meter intervals and a vehicle has 8 antennas. This accuracy allows a moving vehicle to recognize which lane it is in. The localization accuracy of the proposed method was found to be mostly stable for any type of road shape and any number of lanes. A further 14% accuracy improvement is achieved when RFIDs are placed at 0.25-meter intervals and the RFIDs located farther than 30-meter are excluded from computation.","PeriodicalId":402389,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium","volume":"1032 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":"123332660","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}