2014/12/11 by Jose M. Alvarez, Jose M. Álvarez, Alvarez, Jose M. +5
Computer Science · Engineering · Mathematics · #Advanced Neural Network Applications #Artificial intelligence #Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety #Class (philosophy) #Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) #Computer science #Computer vision #Discriminant #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Invariant (physics) #Key (lock) #Mathematics #Pattern recognition (psychology) #Pixel #Process (computing) #Representation (politics) #Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods #cs.CV
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1412.3506
10 pages
openalex publication_date 2014/12/11 · arxiv created 2014/12/18 · arxiv updated 2014/12/19 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Detecting traversable road areas ahead a moving vehicle is a key process for modern autonomous driving systems. A common approach to road detection consists of exploiting color features to classify pixels as road or background. These algorithms reduce the effect of lighting variations and weather conditions by exploiting the discriminant/invariant properties of different color representations. Furthermore, the lack of labeled datasets has motivated the development of algorithms performing on single images based on the assumption that the bottom part of the image belongs to the road surface. In this paper, we first introduce a dataset of road images taken at different times and in different scenarios using an onboard camera. Then, we devise a simple online algorithm and conduct an exhaustive evaluation of different classifiers and the effect of using different color representation to characterize pixels.