A fast and robust intelligent headlight controller for vehicles

IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 703-708

  Connell, Jonathan H ^a   Herta, Benjamin W ^a   Pankanti, Sharathchandra ^a   Hess, Holger ^b   Pliefke, Sebastian ^b  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Ryerson University and MAGNA International   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVENTIONAL COMPUTERS; FORWARD LOOKING; STATE-BASED; SYSTEM'S PERFORMANCE; WEATHER CONDITIONS;

COMPUTER VISION; HEADLIGHTS; INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; SUPERVISED LEARNING; VIDEO CAMERAS;

VEHICLES;

EID: 79960759554     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IVS.2011.5940492     Document Type: Conference Paper

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