On Performance Evaluation Metrics for Lane Estimation

Accurate and efficient lane estimation is a critical component of active safety systems in automobiles such as lane departure warning systems. A substantial number of lane estimation methods have been proposed and evaluated in literature. However, a common set of evaluation metrics that assess different components of lane estimation process has not been addressed. This paper proposes a set of performance evaluation metrics for lane estimation process, that can be deployed to evaluate different kinds of lane estimation algorithms. Evaluation by applying the proposed metrics is demonstrated using a recent lane estimation method.