A Method for Calculating Future Behaviors of Vehicles toward Effective Collision Prediction
Noritaka Sekiyama, Toyohide Watanabe · 2009
Abstract—There are many accidents in traffic inter-sections because of complicated situations. In order to prevent the accidents, collisions between vehicles should be predicted and drivers should be alerted by in-car systems as soon as possible. Our research view-point is to detect possible collisions by predicting ve-hicle behaviors. We propose a region-based approach that uses “attainable region ” for predicting the be-haviors. In our method, traffic situations are observed by analyzing video streams of the scenes. Vehicle be-haviors are transformed into the scene plane as spa-tial regions. With attainable regions, possible colli-sions between vehicles can be estimated by checking overlaps between regions. Through evaluation exper-iments, we show the feasibility of prediction with at-tainable regions.