Implementation of lane detection system using optimized hough transform circuit

This paper describes a vision-based lane detection system with the optimized Hough Transform circuit. The Hough Transform is a popular method to find the line features in an image. This is very robust to noises and changes in the illumination level, but it requires long computation time and large data storage for calculation. It needs large logic gates for implementation. It is difficult to apply in products that require real-time performance. In this paper, we propose the optimized Hough Transform circuit architecture and a lane departure warning system using vision device. We suggest the Hough Transform architecture to minimize the size of logic and the number of cycle time. Our implemented Hough Transform circuit show the good performance than other circuit architecture. We tested the Hough Transform circuit and lane departure warning system on the Xilinx FPGA board.