• International Journal of Highway Engineering
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.151-159
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• 2008

Performances of retroreflectivity vary place to place, according to traffic volumes and time lengths after striping, depending on pavement marking materials and colors. The present paper uses the nation wide data of retroreflectivity, which has been collected from freeways and then tries to develop the regression curve setting traffic volume and service life as independent variables and retroreflectivities as dependent variables. The DB system includes two year's measurement in $2005{\sim}2006$ over Korean freeway pavement marking at an interval of three months for the period. The mobile measurement system, a laserlux, was employed for the purpose. The DB has provided a lot of information about materials and performance of the specific pavement marking such as geometric features, traffic volumes, material characteristics and the installation date. This study provides the comparison of pavement marking performances under diversified conditions. Based on accumulated pavement marking performances, this study provides performance curves based on the diversified factors. The goal of the retroreflectivity modeling is to develop equations that can be used to estimate an average retroreflectivity of pavement markings as a function time since application and traffic volume. After representing the variation of retroreflectivities and estimating regression curves by linear, exponential, logarithmic and power function, the regression curve which had the highest coefficient of determination and the value similar to the last field measurement was regarded as the retroreflectivity decay model. As a result of verification, the decay model showed the signification within the 90% confidence level and especially showed the clear relation with field data according to increase of cumulative vehicle exposure. Accordingly, these models can be used to determine service lives, retroreflectivity degradation rates, and retroreflectivity of new markings.

• International Journal of Highway Engineering
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• v.7 no.4 s.26
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• pp.173-184
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• 2005

Pavement markings delineate driver's sight and attentions at day and night. Retroreflectivities of the pavement markings are known to be affected by some factors such as geometrical characteristics of road sections, marking materials, traffic volumes, weather, and so on. Therefore, pavement markings would have different retroreflectivities place by place. The objective of this paper is to contend that there are rises and falls of retroreflectivity of specific geometrical characteristics of road section based on observed field data. For this purpose, retroreflectivities of yellow continued lines and white skip lines were measured on the freeway sections from Hanam to Nami interchanges. And then, the sections are categorized based on road geometric or facility types. From this study, it may be concluded that there exist considerably lower retroreflectivity trends of pavement markings at sharply curved sections, climbing lane sections, ramp sections, and tunnel sections than averaged retroreflectivity trends on freeway sections. This may leads to the necessity of differential pavement marking managements.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.36 no.4
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• pp.677-684
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• 2016

In order to improve the nighttime visibility of the lane, the need for the development of the automated line marking equipment is on the rise. The purpose of this study is to suggest performance assessment methodology that can be assessed from various aspects such as productivity, safety and quality performance of line marking equipment and to comprehensively analyze the performance of hand-operated and automated equipment based on field test. The following shows the results. It suggested a methodology capable of analyzing the performance of the line marking equipment in terms of productivity, safety and quality. Automated equipment for line marking was analyzed that can be obtained productivity achievement rate of 156.3% as compared with hand-operated equipment. On the basis of the expert advise and literature review, we derived twelve safety factors and ten quality factors of unit work in line marking. By utilizing the AHP technique, we estimated the importance of safety and quality factors. Automated equipment for line marking was analyzed to have been able to expect safety improvement rate of 49.8% and quality improvement rate of 47.2%. It is expected that the performance assessment methodology suggested in this study will be useful in analyzing objective and quantitative validity and expected effectiveness of the line marking equipment.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2016.06a
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• pp.194-197
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• 2016

자동차 산업이 발전하면서 안정적인 주행과 운전자의 편의성을 위한 지능형운전자보조시스템인 ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance System)가 이슈가 되고 있다. 차선인식의 결과에 따라 차선이탈 경고시스템의 성능이 달라지기 때문에 차선인식은 ADAS에서 매우 중요한 핵심적인 기술이라 할 수 있다. 이에 본 논문에서는 그림자 영역과 같이 밝기의 분포가 균일하지 않는 환경에서 강인하게 동작하는 차선인식 알고리즘을 제안하였다, 지역적인 밝기 특징을 고려하여 차선에 해당하는 특징점을 추출하며, 추출된 특징점 가운데 이상치(outlier)를 제거하기 위해 RANSAC (RANdom SAmple Consensus) 알고리즘을 이용하여 차선을 검출한다. 또한 RANSAC 알고리즘에서 신뢰도가 높은 차선이 검출되면 그 주위에 특징점을 추출하기 위한 관심영역을 설정함으로써 안정적인 차선 검출이 가능하도록 하였다.

• Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.439-444
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• 2015

Several attempts to design the best-available thermosetting road markings by using MMA to improve the durability and retroreflectivity are presented in this paper. In order to improve field applicability, the components of main materials were designed by means of reducing the hardening time lower than eight minutes. The optimum mixing ratio of thermosetting road marking was TSRM-6 composed of 15.6 wt% of MMA monomer ($Tg=105^{\circ}C$), 6.0 wt% of PMMA (MW = 70,000, $Tg=60^{\circ}C$) and 1.2 wt% of TMPTA (MW = 338, $Tg=27^{\circ}C$). Also the homogeneous mixing of all components was necessary. The use of ceramic glass beads with an optimized TSRM-6 exhibited excellent performance by achieving retroreflectivity coefficients of 431, 354 and $172mcd{\cdot}m^{-2}{\cdot}lux^{-1}$ for dry, wet and rainy test condition, respectively at two hundred thousand cycles.

• Annual Conference of KIPS
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• 2013.05a
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• pp.359-362
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• 2013

최근 지능형 차량에 대한 관심이 늘어나면서 차선검출에 대한 관심도 많이 늘어나고 있다. 그 중에서도 실시간 적용을 위하여 연산량이 적은 허프변환을 이용한 차선검출 방법이 많이 연구되고 있다. 하지만 허프변환은 안개와 같은 열악한 환경에서와 같이 에지성분이 두드러지게 나타나지 않은 경우에 대해서는 정확한 차선검출이 어렵다는 단점을 가지고 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 열악한 환경의 영상에 차선의 에지를 강조하는 전처리를 수행하고 허프변환을 이용하여 차선검출을 수행하는 방식을 제시한다. 제안하는 전처리 방법은 처리 속도와 성능에서 기존의 전처리 기법과 비교하여 높은 처리속도와 차선 검출률을 보였다. 특히 안개와 같은 열악한 영상에서의 결과에서 기존의 전처리 방법보다 제안한 전처리 방법이 더 높은 검출률을 보였다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.428-437
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• 2005

In this paper, we developed lane departure warning system for lane departure situation of vehicle, accidentally. Color level of yellow lane of road side is changed to black and white level. And black and white level value of relevant pixel of original and yellow lane through added process of this are emphasized. In lane departure detection system, color image data processing method could improve the recognition of the yellow lane(central lane). We could get a system Performance of the high-speed image data Processing. Therefore, lane departure warning system will be utilized at the device for the safety going of the vehicle.

• Annual Conference of KIPS
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• 2014.04a
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• pp.221-222
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• 2014

본 논문은 레일리 채널에서 차량이 이동할 때 같은 차선에서 같은 방향으로 이동하는 인접 차량들과의 통신성능과 다른 차선에서 반대 방향으로 이동하는 차량들과의 통신성능을 일반도로에서 상대속도에 따라 분석한 것으로서 그결과 상대속도가 점진적으로 증가할수록 통신성능이 저하되는 현장이 발생하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.20 no.9
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• pp.1778-1784
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• 2016

we improved the performance by parallelizing lane detection algorithms. Lane detection, as a intellectual assisting system, helps drivers make an alarm sound or revise the handle in response of lane departure. Four kinds of algorithms are implemented in order as following, Gaussian filtering algorithm so as to remove the interferences, gray conversion algorithm to simplify images, sobel edge detection algorithm to find out the regions of lanes, and hough transform algorithm to detect straight lines. Among parallelized methods, the data level parallelism algorithm is easy to design, yet still problem with the bottleneck. The high-speed data level parallelism is suggested to reduce this bottleneck, which resulted in noticeable performance improvement. In the result of applying actual road video of black-box on our parallel algorithm, the measurement, in the case of single-core, is approximately 30 Frames/sec. Furthermore, in the case of octa-core parallelism, the data level performance is approximately 100 Frames/sec and the highest performance comes close to 150 Frames/sec.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.72-74
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• 2011

최근 IT 기술이 융합된 지능형 자동차 기술에 대한 관심이 높아짐에 따라 이에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 차선 검출은 지능형 자동차의 주요 과제인 첨단 안전자동차 기술의 핵심적인 부분으로 국내외에서 다양한 방법들에 대한 연구가 진행되었다. 차량의 안전을 향상시키기 위해서는 충분한 제동거리 확보가 가능한 거리까지 정확하고 빠른 차선 검출이 이루어져야 한다. 기존의 경계선 검출기법들은 조명 변화에 따라 그 성능의 변화가 크게 발생하였다. 이는 차선과 도로의 사이의 값의 차이가 조명 조건에 따라 변하기 때문이다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 영상 분석을 통하여 경계선을 판단하는 값을 조절함으로써 환경에 적응적인 경계선 추출 방법을 제안한다. 차량 주행 영상에서 제안한 방법과 기존의 경계선 검출 기법을 적용하여 성능을 비교한다.