GOLD: A parallel real-time stereo vision system for generic obstacle and lane detection

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 62-81

  Bertozzi, Massimo ^a,b   Broggi, Alberto ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; HIGHWAY MARKINGS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

GENERIC OBSTACLE AND LANE DETECTION SYSTEM (GOLD);

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 0031700576     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/83.650851     Document Type: Article

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