Estimating the coordinates of pillars and posts in the parking lots for intelligent parking assist system

Jae Hyung Choi; Jung Gap Kuk; Young Il Kim; Nam Ik Cho

doi:10.1117/12.908333

2 February 2012 Estimating the coordinates of pillars and posts in the parking lots for intelligent parking assist system

Jae Hyung Choi, Jung Gap Kuk, Young Il Kim, Nam Ik Cho

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Proceedings Volume 8300, Image Processing: Machine Vision Applications V; 83000L (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.908333
Event: IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging, 2012, Burlingame, California, United States

Abstract

This paper proposes an algorithm for the detection of pillars or posts in the video captured by a single camera implemented on the fore side of a room mirror in a car. The main purpose of this algorithm is to complement the weakness of current ultrasonic parking assist system, which does not well find the exact position of pillars or does not recognize narrow posts. The proposed algorithm is consisted of three steps: straight line detection, line tracking, and the estimation of 3D position of pillars. In the first step, the strong lines are found by the Hough transform. Second step is the combination of detection and tracking, and the third is the calculation of 3D position of the line by the analysis of trajectory of relative positions and the parameters of camera. Experiments on synthetic and real images show that the proposed method successfully locates and tracks the position of pillars, which helps the ultrasonic system to correctly locate the edges of pillars. It is believed that the proposed algorithm can also be employed as a basic element for vision based autonomous driving system.

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Jae Hyung Choi, Jung Gap Kuk, Young Il Kim, and Nam Ik Cho "Estimating the coordinates of pillars and posts in the parking lots for intelligent parking assist system", Proc. SPIE 8300, Image Processing: Machine Vision Applications V, 83000L (2 February 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.908333

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