Precrash Vehicle Detection

Zehang Sun
Department of Computer Science, UNR

Advisors:
Dr. George Bebis
Dr. Ronald Miller

The Project:
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Links:
Ford Motor Company
NSF
UNR-CVL
UNR-Home Page

In order to evaluate the performance of the two-step vehicle detection system, tests were carried out under different driving condition. Fig. 3 and Fig.4 show some representative detection results. The bounding boxes superimposed on the original image indicate the final detection. Fig.1 shows detection results on simply structured roads like a national highway, and Fig.4(a-f) under an urban traffic scenario. The performance of the system degraded when we drove the prototype vehicle under some abnormal conditions, Fig. 4 (g-h) presents two successful examples under this scenario.

We have achieved a frame rate of approximately 10 frame per second using a standard PC machine (Pentium III 1,133MHZ) and without making particular efforts to optimize our software. If the vehicle's speed is about 70mph, 10Hz corresponds to a 3 meter interval. For many situations, this level of resolution is sufficient.


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Acknowledgements:

National Science Foundation  
     
Ford Motor Company  
     
University of Nevada Reno - Computer Science & Office of Research  
     
Computer Vision Lab, University of Nevada Reno  


 


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