Intervehicle distance estimation through camera images

Jaemyoung Lee

doi:10.1117/1.JEI.27.6.063001

8 November 2018 Intervehicle distance estimation through camera images

Jaemyoung Lee

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Journal of Electronic Imaging, Vol. 27, Issue 6, 063001 (November 2018). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JEI.27.6.063001

Abstract

Vehicles have evolved into synthetic engineering systems owing to the developments in mechanical, electronic, and information technologies. Recently, driving assistance systems have gained considerable attention and are installed in vehicles under development by manufacturers. An important technology for the driving assistance systems is intervehicle distance measurement, for which several technologies have been proposed through hardware and software developments. The intervehicle distance measurement generally requires auxiliary sensor systems, complex algorithms, and high costs. An intervehicle distance estimation method is proposed, which calculates the distance using images obtained through a camera installed in the vehicle. For calculating the distance, the proposed method does not need any other physical sensors or information about the roads on which the vehicle moves. For estimating the intervehicle distance, the proposed method takes advantage of the fact that the width between two adjacent lanes on the road is constant. The difference in the distance calculated using the proposed method and the actual distance is <7 % .

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Jaemyoung Lee "Intervehicle distance estimation through camera images," Journal of Electronic Imaging 27(6), 063001 (8 November 2018). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JEI.27.6.063001

Received: 13 June 2018; Accepted: 18 October 2018; Published: 8 November 2018

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