Keywords
road models, stereo video, snakes, color segmentation
Abstract
This research focuses on extracting road models from stereo video sequences taken from a moving vehicle. The proposed method combines color histogram based segmentation, active contours (snakes) and morphological processing to extract road boundary coordinates for conversion into Matlab or Multigen OpenFlight compatible polygonal representations. Color segmentation uses an initial truth frame to develop a color probability density function (PDF) of the road versus the terrain. Subsequent frames are segmented using a Maximum Apostiori Probability (MAP) criteria and the resulting templates are used to update the PDFs. Color segmentation worked well where there was minimal shadowing and occlusion by other cars. A snake algorithm was used to find the road edges which were converted to 3D coordinates using stereo disparity and vehicle position information. The resulting 3D road models were accurate to within 1 meter.
Notes
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Graduation Date
2006
Semester
Summer
Advisor
Bauer, Christian
Degree
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
College
College of Engineering and Computer Science
Department
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Degree Program
Computer Engineering
Format
application/pdf
Identifier
CFE0001326
URL
http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0001326
Language
English
Length of Campus-only Access
None
Access Status
Doctoral Dissertation (Open Access)
STARS Citation
Claudio, Pedro, "Automated Visual Database Creation For A Ground Vehicle Simulator" (2006). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 998.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/etd/998