• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.52-57
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• 2006

One of the important functions of an Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) is to classify vehicle types using a vision system. We propose a method using machine-learning algorithms for this classification problem with 3-D object model fitting. It is also necessary to detect road lanes from a fixed traffic surveillance camera in preparation for model fitting. We apply a background mask and line analysis algorithm based on statistical measures to Hough Transform (HT) in order to remove noise and false positive road lanes. The results show that this method is quite efficient in terms of quality.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.655-670
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• 2014

In this paper, we propose an efficient and robust lane detection method for detecting immediate left and right lane boundaries of the lane in the roads. The proposed method are based on hyperbolic lane model and the reliable line segment clustering. The reliable line segment cluster is determined from the most probable cluster obtained from clustering line segments extracted by the efficient LSD algorithm. Experiments show that the proposed method works robustly against lanes with difficult environments such as ones with occlusions or with cast shadows in addition to ones with dashed lane marks, and that the proposed method performs better compared with other lane detection methods on an CMU/VASC lane dataset.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.68-74
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• 2001

A lane detection based on a road model or feature all needs correct acquirement of information on the lane in an image. It is inefficient to implement a lane detection algorithm through the full range of an image when it is applied to a real road in real time because of the calculating time. This paper defines two (other proper terms including"modes") for detecting lanes on a road. First is searching mode that is searching the lane without any prior information of a road. Second is recognition mode, which is able to reduce the size and change the position of a searching range by predicting the position of a lane through the acquired information in a previous frame. It allows to extract accurately and efficiently the edge candidate points of a lane without any unnecessary searching. By means of inverse perspective transform which removes the perspective effect on the edge candidate points, we transform the edge candidate information in the Image Coordinate System(ICS) into the plan-view image in the World Coordinate System(WCS). We define a linear approximation filter and remove faulty edge candidate points by using it. This paper aims at approximating more correctly the lane of an actual road by applying the least-mean square method with the fault-removed edge information for curve fitting.e fitting.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2000년도 하계학술대회 논문집 D
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• pp.2814-2818
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• 2000

This paper describes an image processing algorithm capable of recognizing the road lane using a CDF (Cumulative Distribution Function). which is designed for the model function of the road lane. The CDF has distinctive peak points at the vicinity of the lane direction because of the directional and positional continuities of the lane. We construct a scatter diagram by collecting the edge pixels with the direction corresponding to the peak point of the CDF and carry out the principal axis-based line fitting for the scatter diagram to obtain the lane information. As noises play the role of making a lot of similar features to the lane appear and disappear in the image we introduce a recursive estimator of the function to reduce the noise effect and a scene understanding index (SUI) formulated by statistical parameters of the CDF to prevent a false alarm or miss detection. The proposed algorithm has been implemented in a real time on the video data obtained from a test vehicle driven in a typical highway.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제52권12호
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• pp.158-164
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• 2015

차선인식은 차선 유지, 경로 계획 등을 가능하게 하는 기술로서 자율주행차를 구성하는 가장 중요한 요소 중 하나이다. 카메라 센서를 이용한 연구가 많이 진행되었으나 센서의 특성상 화각의 한계가 존재하며 조도 환경에 취약한 단점이 있다. 반면 Lidar 센서는 넓은 화각과 함께 표면의 반사율 정보를 이용하기에 조도의 영향을 받지 않는 장점이 있다. 기존 연구에선 Hough 변환, 히스토그램 등의 방법을 이용하였는데 도로 표시들이 혼재한 상황에서 올바른 차선 인식이 이루어지지 않거나 다수의 차선이 존재함에도 주행 차선만 인식 되는 문제점들이 존재한다. 본 논문에서는 RANSAC과 regularization을 적용해 도로 표시가 혼재된 고속도로 환경에서도 정확하고 안정적인 다중 차선 인식 알고리즘을 제안한다. 정확한 차선 후보군 추출을 위해 원 모델 RANSAC을 적용하였고 안정적인 다중 차선 검출을 위해 피팅에 regularization을 추가로 제안하였다. 직접 취득한 도로 주행 데이터에 적용하여 높은 정확도와 실시간성을 정량적으로 검증하였다.

• Journal of KIEE
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.69-77
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• 2001

This paper describes an image processing algorithm capable of recognizing road lanes by using a CDF(cumulative distribution function). The CDF is designed for the model function of road lanes. Based on the assumptions that there are no abrupt changes in the direction and location of road lanes and that the intensity of lane boundaries differs from that of the background, we formulated the CDF, which accumulates the edge magnitude for edge directions. The CDF has distinctive peak points at the vicinity of lane directions due to the directional and the positional continuities of a lane. To obtain lane-related information a scatter diagram was constructed by collecting edge pixels, of which the direction corresponds to the peak point of the CDF, then the principal axis-based line fitting was performed for the scatter diagram. Noises can cause many similar features to appear and to disappear in an image. Therefore, to reduce the noise effect a recursive estimator of the CDF was introduced, and also to prevent false alarms or miss detection a scene understanding index (DUI) was formulated by the statistical parameters of the CDF. The proposed algorithm has been implemented in real time on video data obtained from a test vehicle driven on a typical highway.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2000년도 하계학술대회 논문집 D
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• pp.2843-2845
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• 2000

A lane detection based on a road model or feature all need correct acquirement of information on the lane in a image, It is inefficient to implement a lane detection algorithm through the full range of a image when being applied to a real road in real time because of the calculating time. This paper defines two searching range of detecting lane in a road, First is searching mode that is searching the lane without any prior information of a road, Second is recognition mode, which is able to reduce the size and change the position of a searching range by predicting the position of a lane through the acquired information in a previous frame. It is allow to extract accurately and efficiently the edge candidates points of a lane as not conducting an unnecessary searching. By means of removing the perspective effect of the edge candidate points which are acquired by using the inverse perspective transformation, we transform the edge candidate information in the Image Coordinate System(ICS) into the plane-view image in the World Coordinate System(WCS). We define linear approximation filter and remove the fault edge candidate points by using it This paper aims to approximate more correctly the lane of an actual road by applying the least-mean square method with the fault-removed edge information for curve fitting.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.253-264
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 실용화를 목적으로 비전 시스템을 기반으로 한 차선검출의 성능개선과 처리과정의 고속화 알고리즘을 제안한다. 차선검출의 고속화를 위해 전처리 과정으로 수평소실선의 추정과 관심영역(ROI-LB)의 최적 선정으로 획기적인 검출영역의 감소가 가능하다. 블록단위의 ROI-LB 내에서 영상의 특징정보를 추출하고 이를 기반으로 한 Hough 변환의 적용에 의한 nonparametric 모델 매칭 기법으로 차선을 검출한다. Laplacian 필터를 사용해서 잡음제거와 동시에 에지 보강 과정을 처리함으로서 다양한 차선 패턴에 대한 특징정보 추출의 신뢰성을 향상시킨다. 또한 ROI-LB 내 블록별 에지의 방향성 정보의 클러스터링으로 차선으로 오인식되는 에지들의 제거가 가능해 차선검출의 성능을 개선할 수 있다. 제안 방법의 유효성을 검증하기 위해 다양한 실제 차선 패턴을 대상으로 한 실험결과를 제시한다.

• International Journal of Automotive Technology
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.141-148
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• 2005

In order to reduce the time and costs of improving the performance of vehicle suspensions, the techniques for optimizing damping and air spring characteristic were proposed. A full vehicle model for a bus is constructed with a car body, front and rear suspension linkages, air springs, dampers, tires, and a steering system. An air spring and a damper are modeled with nonlinear characteristics using experimental data and a curve fitting technique. The objective function for ride quality is WRMS (Weighted RMS) of the power spectral density of the vertical acceleration at the driver's seat, middle seat and rear seat. The objective function for handling performance is the RMS (Root Mean Squares) of the roll angle, roll rate, yaw rate, and lateral acceleration at the center of gravity of a body during a lane change. The design variables are determined by damping coefficients, damping exponents and curve fitting parameters of air spring characteristic curves. The Taguchi method is used in order to investigate sensitivity of design variables. Since ride and handling performances are mutually conflicting characteristics, the validity of the developed optimum design procedure is demonstrated by comparing the trends of ride and handling performance indices with respect to the ratio of weighting factors. The global criterion method is proposed to obtain the solution of multi-objective optimization problem.