Real-time lane detection and tracking for autonomous vehicle applications

This article proposes an improved lane detection and tracking method for autonomous vehicle applications. In real applications, when the pose and position of the camera are changed, parameters and thresholds in the algorithms need fine adjustment. In order to improve adaptability to different perspective conditions, a width-adaptive lane detection method is proposed. As a useful reference to reduce noises, vanishing point is widely applied in lane detection studies. However, vanishing point detection based on original image consumes many calculation resources. In order to improve the calculation efficiency for real-time applications, the authors proposed a simplified vanishing point detection method. In the feature extraction step, a scan-line method is applied to detect lane ridge features, the width threshold of which is set automatically based on lane tracking. With clustering, validating, and model fitting, lane candidates are obtained from the basic ridge features. A lane-voted vanishing point is obtained by the simplified grid-based method, then applied to filter out noises. Finally, a multi-lane tracking Kalman filter is applied, the confirmed lines of which also provide adaptive width threshold for ridge feature extraction. Real-road experimental results based on the authors' intelligent vehicle testbed proved the validity and robustness of the proposed method.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1177/0954407019866989
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/09544070
• Supplemental Notes:
  • © IMechE 2019.
• Authors:
  • Jiao, Xinyu
  • 0000-0002-2462-1691
  • Yang, Diange
  • Jiang, Kun
  • Yu, Chunlei
  • Wen, Tuopu
  • 0000-0002-3093-765X
  • Yan, Ruidong
• Publication Date: 2019-8

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 2301-2311
• Serial:
  • Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part D: Journal of Automobile Engineering
  • Volume: 233
  • Issue Number: 9
  • Publisher: Sage Publications Limited
  • ISSN: 0954-4070
  • EISSN: 2041-2991
  • Serial URL: http://pid.sagepub.com/content/current

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Autonomous vehicles; Detection and identification; Real time data processing; Traffic lanes
• Subject Areas: Highways; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01718184
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 26 2019 10:45AM