Accurate ego-vehicle global localization at intersections through alignment of visual data with digital map

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 673-687

  Nedevschi, Sergiu ^a   Popescu, Voichita ^a   Danescu, Radu ^a   Marita, Tiberiu ^a   Oniga, Florin ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CLUJ NAPOCA   (Romania)

Author keywords

Alignment; Bayesian network (BN); extended digital map (EDM); localization; stereovision; visual landmarks

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL MAP; DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS; GLOBAL LOCALIZATION; GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEMS; LANE IDENTIFICATIONS; LOCALIZATION; STEREO-VISION SYSTEM; VISUAL LANDMARKS;

ALIGNMENT; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; VEHICLES;

STEREO VISION;

EID: 84878728474     PISSN: 15249050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2012.2228191     Document Type: Article

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