• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.187-192
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• 2017

Autonomous driving vehicle research demands complex road and lane understanding such as lane departure warning, adaptive cruise control, lane keeping and centering, lane change and turn assist, and driving under complex road conditions. A fast and robust road lane detection subsystem is a basic but important building block for this type of research. In this paper, we propose a method that performs road lane detection from black box input. The proposed system applies Random Sample Consensus to find the best model of road lanes passing through divided regions of the input image under HSV color model. HSV color model is chosen since it explicitly separates chromaticity and luminosity and the narrower hue distribution greatly assists in later segmentation of the frames by limiting color saturation. The implemented method was successful in lane detection on real world on-board testing, exhibiting 86.21% accuracy with 4.3% standard deviation in real time.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.21 no.11
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• pp.1081-1087
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• 2015

This article aims to provide a design method of warning thresholds for active safety systems based on the performance-based approach considering driver behaviors. Both positive and negative consequences of warnings are considered, and the main idea is to choose a warning threshold where the positive consequence is maximized, whereas the negative consequence is minimized. The process of the performance-based approach involves: Defining the operating scenarios; setting the trajectory models, including human characteristics; estimating the alert and nominal trajectories; estimating the performance metrics; generating a performance-metric plot; and determining the alert thresholds. This paper chose a lane-departure warning system as an example to show the usefulness of the performance-based approach. Both human and sensor characteristics were considered in the system design, and this paper provided a quantitative method to include human factors in designing active safety systems.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.1628-1631
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• 2010

본 연구에서는 최근 인기를 끌고 있는 스마트폰 중 하나인 Apple 사의 iPhone 3GS 용 차선이탈경보 애플리케이션 개발을 수행하였다. 국내외적으로 수행되고 있는 지능형 자동차 연구를 통해 개발된 다양한 안전주행 지원 기술들이 단계적으로 상용화되면서 자동차를 지능화시키고 있는 시점에서 고가의 안전주행 지원장치를 대체할 수 있는 플랫폼으로 스마트폰을 활용하고, 안전주행 지원기술을 애플리케이션으로 개발하여 사용자가 쉽고 저렴하고 편리하게 사용할 수 있는 제품을 개발하고자 하였다. Before-Market 에만 집중된 차선이탈경보장치 기능을 iPhone 에 적용하기 위해서 제한된 컴퓨팅 자원을 효율적으로 활용할 수 있는 차선인식알고리즘이 필요하고, 본 연구에서는 Hough Transform 기반의 알고리즘을 사용하였다. 이외에도 iPhone 이라는 플랫폼의 여러 가지 특징을 고려하여 애플리케이션을 개발하였다. 효율적인 영상처리를 위해 OpenCV 라이브러리를 사용하였고, 개발은 매킨토시 컴퓨터에서 개발 후 iPhone 에 탑재하여 확인하였다. 현재까지 개발된 애플리케이션의 기능에서 보완할 점은 차선인식률과 처리 속도를 향상 시키는 것이다. 2011 년 2 월까지 완제품을 개발하여 앱스토어에 등록하는 것을 목표로 하고 있으며, 향후 안드로이드용 애플리케이션도 개발할 계획이다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2013.11a
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• pp.1540-1543
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• 2013

최근 자동차 관련 연구 분야 중 안전사고 예방에 대한 관심이 높아짐에 따라 안전지능형 기술들의 연구가 활발히 이루어지고 있다. 졸음운전과 같이 운전자의 의지와 상관없는 무의식적인 차선 이탈은 중앙선 침범으로 이어져 대형 사고를 유발할 가능성이 크다. 이와 같은 요인들은 의식적인 상황에서의 차량의 통제를 방해하고 결국 예기치 않은 차선 이탈로 연결될 수 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 차선 이탈 여부를 미리 판단하여 주행차선을 이탈하기 전에 운전자게에 알려줌으로써 운전자의 안전을 향상 시켜주며 자동차 안전사고 예방기술에 관련하여 차선검출과 차선이탈경고시스템 알고리즘을 설계하였다.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.32 no.4
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• pp.293-302
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• 2014

Recently, advanced sensors and communication technologies have been widely applied to advanced safety vehicles for reducing traffic accidents and injury severity. To apply the advanced safety vehicle technologies, it is important to quantify safety benefits, which is a fundamental for justifying application. This study proposed a methodology for quantifying the effectiveness of the Advanced Driver Assistant System (ADAS) with the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). When the proposed methodology is applied to 2008-2010 Gyeonggi-province crash data, ADAS would reduce about 10.18% of crashes. In addition, Adaptive Cruise Control, Automatic Emergency Braking System, Lane Departure Warning System and Blind Spot Detection System are expected to reduce about 10.43%, 10.17%, 9.96%, and 10.18%, respectively. The outcomes of this study might support decision making for developing not only vehicular technologies but also relevant safety policies.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2013.10a
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• pp.103-107
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• 2013

In this paper, A real-time lane tracking algorithm is proposed for lane departure warning system. To eliminate perspective effect, input image is converted into Bird's View by inverse perspective mapping. Next, suitable features are extracted for lane detection. Lane feature that correspond to area of interest and RANSAC are used to detect lane candidates. And driving lane is decided by clustering of lane candidates. Finally, detected lane is tracked using the Kalman filter. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can be processed within 30ms and its detection rate is approximately 90% on the highway in a variety of environments such as day and night.

• Journal of Auto-vehicle Safety Association
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.12-17
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• 2012

ADAS(Advanced Driver Assistance System) which is developed for alleviating driver's load has become improved with extending it's role. Previously, ADAS offered simple function just to make driver's convenience. However, nowadays ADAS also acts as Active Safety system which is made to release and/or prevent accidents. Longitudinal control system, as one of major parts of Active Safety System, is assessed as doing direct effect on avoiding accidents. Therefore, many countries such as Europe and America has pushed longitudinal control system as a government-wide project. In this paper, it covers the result of evaluation system and vehicle evaluation for development study in FCW, ACC and AEB.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.22 no.7
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• pp.40-47
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• 2014

This paper proposes a matching method of GIS lane information with a vehicle position using camera image to reduce DGPS error. Images of straight road are taken using a camera that is installed on the front center of the vehicle, and the distance between the vehicle and the lane are estimated using the images. The current GIS lane data is matched by comparing the estimated distance and the measured distance using a DGPS. Inverse perspective mapping is used to minimize the error of image processing from the heading angle, and single buffering method is applied to decide the exact moment of GIS match. Through practical test on the highway, feasibility of the GIS matching using camera image is confirmed.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.219-226
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• 2017

This paper addresses the effective and quantitative image DB construction for the development of front looking camera systems. The automotive industry has expanded the capability of front camera solutions that will help ADAS(Advanced Driver Assistance System) applications targeting Euro NCAP function requirements. These safety functions include AEB(Autonomous Emergency Braking), TSR(Traffic Signal Recognition), LDW(Lane Departure Warning) and FCW(Forward Collision Warning). In order to guarantee real road safety performance, the driving image DB logged under various real road conditions should be used to train core object classifiers and verify the function performance of the camera system. However, the driving image DB would entail an invalid and time consuming task without proper guidelines. The standard working procedures and design factors required for each step to build an effective image DB for reliable automotive front looking camera systems are proposed.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.219-230
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• 2017

This paper proposes a vehicle to road tracking algorithm based on vision sensor by using EKF(Extended Kalman Filter). The lateral offset, heading angle, and curvature which are obtained from vehicle to road tracking might be used as inputs to steering controller of LKAS(Lane Keeping Assist System) or for the warning decision logic of LDWS(Lane Departure Warning System). To the end, in this paper, the yaw rate, steering angle, and vehicle speed as well as lane raw points together with considering of vehicle lateral dynamics are utilized to improve the exactness and convergence of the vehicle to road tracking. The proposed algorithm has been tested at a proving ground that consists of straight and curve sections and compared with GPS datum using DGPS-RTK equipment to show the feasibility of the proposed algorithm.