In modern cars, advanced driver assistance systems are used to aid the driver and increase the automobile safety. An example of such a system is the night vision system designed to detect and warn for pedestrians in danger of being hit by the car. To determine if a warning should be given when a pedestrian is detected, the system requires a prediction of the future path of the car for up to four seconds ahead in time. In this master's thesis, a new path prediction algorithm based on satellite positioning and a digital map database has been developed. The algorithm uses an extended Kalman filter to get an accurate estimate of the current position and heading direction of the car. The estimate is then matched to a position in the map database and the possible future paths of the vehicle are predicted using the road network. The performance of the path prediction algorithm has been evaluated on recorded night vision sequences corresponding to 15 hours of driving. The results show that map-based path prediction algorithms are superior to dead-reckoning methods for longer time horizons. It has also been investigated whether vision-based lane detection and tracking can be used to improve the path prediction. A prediction method using lane markings has been implemented and evaluated on recorded sequences. Based on the results, the conclusion is that lane detection can be used to support a path prediction system when lane markings are clearly visible.


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    Titel :

    Path Prediction for a Night Vision System


    Beteiligte:
    Fri, Johannes (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2011-01-01


    Medientyp :

    Hochschulschrift


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch



    Klassifikation :

    DDC:    629



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