Stereo-camera-based urban environment perception using occupancy grid and object tracking

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 154-165

  Nguyen, Thien Nghia ^a   Michaelis, Bernd ^a   Al Hamadi, Ayoub ^a   Tornow, Michael ^a   Meinecke, Marc Michael ^b  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b VOLKSWAGEN AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Environment perception; object tracking; occupancy grid; stereo image processing

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE APPLICATIONS; BAYES' THEOREM; DEMPSTER-SHAFER THEORY; GRID CELLS; GRID-BASED; INTERACTING MULTIPLE-MODEL ESTIMATORS; MOVING OBJECTS; OBJECT BASED; OBJECT TRACKING; OCCUPANCY GRIDS; ON-BOARD SENSORS; SENSOR MODEL; STEREO IMAGE PROCESSING; STEREO SENSORS; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS;

CAMERAS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; OPTICAL RADAR; SENSORS;

SENSORY PERCEPTION;

EID: 84857786392     PISSN: 15249050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2011.2165705     Document Type: Article

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