2020/02/05 by Augusto Luis Ballardini, Daniele Cattaneo, Ballardini, Augusto Luis +12
Computer Science · Engineering · #Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety #Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Machine Learning (cs.LG) #Robotics (cs.RO) #Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) #Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods #cs.CV #cs.LG #cs.RO
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2002.01913
preprint
openalex publication_date 2020/02/05 · arxiv created 2020/02/06 · arxiv updated 2020/02/07 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We present a probabilistic ego-lane estimation algorithm for highway-like scenarios that is designed to increase the accuracy of the ego-lane estimate, which can be obtained relying only on a noisy line detector and tracker. The contribution relies on a Hidden Markov Model (HMM) with a transient failure model. The proposed algorithm exploits the OpenStreetMap (or other cartographic services) road property lane number as the expected number of lanes and leverages consecutive, possibly incomplete, observations. The algorithm effectiveness is proven by employing different line detectors and showing we could achieve much more usable, i.e. stable and reliable, ego-lane estimates over more than 100 Km of highway scenarios, recorded both in Italy and Spain. Moreover, as we could not find a suitable dataset for a quantitative comparison with other approaches, we collected datasets and manually annotated the Ground Truth about the vehicle ego-lane. Such datasets are made publicly available for usage from the scientific community.