Real-time vehicle tracking for driving assistance

  • Authors:
  • Andrea Fossati;Patrick Schönmann;Pascal Fua

  • Affiliations:
  • CVLab, EPFL, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland;Cinetis SA, 1920, Martigny, Switzerland;CVLab, EPFL, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland

  • Venue:
  • Machine Vision and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Detecting car taillights at night is a task which can nowadays be accomplished very fast on cheap hardware. We rely on such detections to build a vision-based system that, coupling them in a rule-based fashion, is able to detect and track vehicles. This allows the generation of an interface that informs a driver of the relative distance and velocity of other vehicles in real time and triggers a warning when a potentially dangerous situation arises. We demonstrate the system using sequences shot using a camera mounted behind a car’s windshield.