Nighttime vehicle light detection on a moving vehicle using image segmentation and analysis techniques

WSEAS Transactions on Computers

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 506-515

  Chen, Yen Lin ^a  

^a ASIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Autonomous vehicles; Computer vision; Image analysis; Image segmentation; Multilevel thresholding; Vehicle detection

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES; CONNECTED COMPONENT ANALYSIS; LIGHT DETECTION; MOVING VEHICLES; MULTILEVEL THRESHOLDING; ROAD ENVIRONMENT; SCENE IMAGE; TWO STAGE; VEHICLE DETECTION; VEHICLE DETECTION SYSTEMS;

CAMERAS; COMPUTER VISION; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; ROADS AND STREETS;

VEHICLES;

EID: 66349094795     PISSN: 11092750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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