Towards autonomous convoy driving: recognizing the starting vehicle in front
Ralf Kories, Nils Rehfeld, Georg Zimmermann · 2003
The problem of automatically detecting a leading vehicle in the process of starting off and deriving a model for further tracking is addressed. Very little knowledge about the appearance of the vehicle is utilized. Motion information is the main cue for selecting image structures belonging to the leading vehicle. An edge model is derived from two independent, complementary motion-estimation processes that cross-validate each other. The suitability of the aggregated model for recognition and the precision of the motion estimation process are demonstrated by means of an image sequence consisting of 130 TV images.>