Tracking white road line by particle filter from the video sequence acquired by the camera attached to a walking human body

Shohei Takahashi; Jun Ohya

doi:10.1117/12.907814

2 February 2012 Tracking white road line by particle filter from the video sequence acquired by the camera attached to a walking human body

Shohei Takahashi, Jun Ohya

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Proceedings Volume 8295, Image Processing: Algorithms and Systems X; and Parallel Processing for Imaging Applications II; 82950V (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.907814
Event: IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging, 2012, Burlingame, California, United States

Abstract

This paper proposes a method for tracking and recognizing the white line marked in the surface of the road from the video sequence acquired by the camera attached to a walking human, towards the actualization of an automatic navigation system for the visually handicapped. Our proposed method consists of two main modules: (1) Particle Filter based module for tracking the white line, and (2) CLAFIC Method based module for classifying whether the tracked object is the white line. In (1), each particle is a rectangle, and is described by its centroid's coordinates and its orientation. The likelihood of a particle is computed based on the number of white pixels in the rectangle. In (2), in order to obtain the ranges (to be used for the recognition) for the white line's length and width, Principal Component Analysis is applied to the covariance matrix obtained from valid sample particles. At each frame, PCA is applied to the covariance matrix constructed from particles with high likelihood, and if the obtained length and width are within the abovementioned ranges, it is recognized as the white line. Experimental results using real video sequences show the validity of the proposed method.

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Shohei Takahashi and Jun Ohya "Tracking white road line by particle filter from the video sequence acquired by the camera attached to a walking human body", Proc. SPIE 8295, Image Processing: Algorithms and Systems X; and Parallel Processing for Imaging Applications II, 82950V (2 February 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.907814

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