Enhancing light blob detection for intelligent headlight control using lane detection

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 1003-1011

  Eum, Sungmin ^a   Jung, Ho Gi ^a  

^a Hanyang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Intelligent headlight control (IHC); lane detection; light blob (LB) detection; low exposure (LE) image; vanishing point estimation

Indexed keywords

AUTO EXPOSURE; BLOB DETECTION; FALSE DETECTIONS; HIGH-BEAM HEADLIGHTS; INTELLIGENT HEADLIGHT CONTROL (IHC); LANE DETECTION; LOW-EXPOSURE (LE) IMAGE; TWO APPROACHES;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS;

HEADLIGHTS;

EID: 84878716418     PISSN: 15249050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2012.2233736     Document Type: Article

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