Title :
Driving assistance system based on the detection of head-on collisions
Author :
Martínez, Elisa ; Díaz, Marta ; Melenchón, Javier ; Montero, Josó A. ; Iriondo, Ignasi ; Socoró, Joan Claudi
Author_Institution :
Eng. i Arquitectura La Salle, Univ. Ramon Llull, Barcelona
Abstract :
An artificial vision system for vehicles is proposed in this article to alert drivers of potential head on collisions. It is capable of detecting any type of frontal collision from any type of obstacle that may present itself in a vehiclepsilas path. The system operates based on a sequence of algorithms whose images are recorded on a camera located in the moving vehicle, resulting in the calculation of Time-to-Contact taken from an analysis of the optical flow, which allows the vehiclepsilas movement to be studied from a sequence of images.
Keywords :
computer vision; driver information systems; image sequences; object detection; artificial vision system; driving assistance system; frontal collision detecting; head-on collisions detection; image sequences; Algorithm design and analysis; Cameras; Image analysis; Image sequence analysis; Machine vision; Magnetic heads; Optical recording; Vehicle detection; Vehicle driving; Vehicles;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, 2008 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Eindhoven
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2568-6
Electronic_ISBN :
1931-0587
DOI :
10.1109/IVS.2008.4621275
