Onboard sensor-based collision risk assessment to improve pedestrians' safety

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 56, Issue 5 I, 2007, Pages 2405-2413

  De Nicolao, Giuseppe ^a   Ferrara, Antonella ^a   Giacomini, Luisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Collision avoidance; Monte Carlo simulation; Pedestrian safety; Random walk; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

COLLISION RISK ASSESSMENT; DANGEROUS SITUATIONS; EUROPEAN COMMISSION; FALSE ALARMS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; OFFLINE; ON-BOARD SENSORS; PEDESTRIAN DETECTION; PEDESTRIAN DETECTION AND TRACKING; RANDOM WALK;

COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSMIC RAY DETECTORS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PEDESTRIAN SAFETY; RANDOM PROCESSES; RISK PERCEPTION; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 64849097150     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2007.899209     Document Type: Article

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