Computer and Machine Vision, 4th Edition

Chapter 23

In-Vehicle Vision Systems

This chapter considers the value of in-vehicle vision as part of the means for providing driver assistance systems. To achieve this, many objects have to be identified, including not only the roadway itself but also the lane and other markings on it, road signs, other vehicles, and pedestrians. The latter are particularly important as their actions are relatively unpredictable, and people who wander into the roadway are liable to cause accidents—unless the driver assistance system can help to avoid them.

Designing in-vehicle vision systems is anything but trivial, as they necessarily deploy moving cameras, which means that all objects in a scene are moving; hence it becomes quite difficult to eliminate the ...