Vision-based detection and tracking of vehicles to the rear with perspective correction in low-light conditions

IET Intelligent Transport Systems

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-10

  O'Malley, R ^a   Glavin, M ^a   Jones, E ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED DRIVER ASSISTANCE SYSTEMS; BILATERAL SYMMETRY; CAMERA IMAGES; COLLISION WARNING; CROSS CORRELATIONS; DARK CONDITIONS; DETECTION PERFORMANCE; FALSE POSITIVE; INTER-FRAME; PERSPECTIVE DISTORTION; PERSPECTIVE TRANSFORMATION; REGION GROWING; STATIC CAMERAS; TARGET VEHICLES; THRESHOLDING; TRACK VEHICLES; VEHICLE DETECTION; VIDEO PROCESSING; VISION-BASED DETECTION; YAW ANGLES;

AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; CAMERAS; ROADS AND STREETS;

VEHICLES;

EID: 79959887346     PISSN: 1751956X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-its.2010.0032     Document Type: Review

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