STATIC ENVIRONMENT RECOGNITION USING OMNI-CAMERA FROM A MOVING VEHICLE

Discussed is research to develop a sensor system capable of recognizing city area environments from a moving vehicle. A cluttered city area outdoor man-made environment requires different recognition methods from indoor or highway environments. An omni-directional camera and vehicle odometry were developed for better recognition in the total sensing system to estimate geometrical information that was fed back to image processing. This paper provides the first progress report for the research by explaining the study's approach of using omni-camera on a vehicle and setup of a platform. Also shown is an experimental result of two dimensional static environment recognition from a moving vehicle.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Full conference proceedings available on CD-ROM.
• Corporate Authors:

  Federal Transit Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Yata, T
  • Thorpe, C
  • Dellaert, F
• Conference:
  • Technical Information on Transit IVI Projects
  • Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
  • Date: 2002-10-28 to 2002-10-29
• Publication Date: 2002

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 7p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Environment; Image processing; Intelligent vehicles; Moving target indicators; Odometers; Optical detectors; Sensors; Urban areas
• Identifier Terms: Intelligent Vehicle Initiative
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Public Transportation; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00936273
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Jan 3 2003 12:00AM