Homography-based vision algorithm for traffic sign attribute computation

Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 385-400

  Hu, Zhaozheng ^a   Tsai, Yichang ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM PERFORMANCE; CALIBRATION ERROR; CAMERA CALIBRATION; CO-ORDINATE SYSTEM; COMPUTATION MODEL; GEORGIA; GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATIONS; HOMOGRAPHY; NOISE LEVELS; OCCLUSION PROBLEMS; PIXEL NOISE; REAL IMAGES; ROADWAY SAFETY; SIMULATION DATA; SPEED LIMIT; STANDARD DEVIATION; TILTED ANGLE; VISION ALGORITHMS;

CALIBRATION; CAMERAS; ERRORS; IMAGE PROCESSING; ROUTING ALGORITHMS; STATISTICS;

TRAFFIC SIGNS;

ALGORITHM; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MODEL VALIDATION; MOTORWAY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PIXEL; SIGNAL; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; TRANSPORTATION SAFETY;

EID: 67649218735     PISSN: 10939687     EISSN: 14678667     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8667.2009.00598.x     Document Type: Article

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