The ongoing development autonomous vehicles and adaptive vehicle dynamics present in many modern vehicles has generated a need for road environment classification - i.e., the ability to determine the nature of the current road or terrain environment from an onboard vehicle sensor. In this paper, we investigate the use of a low-cost camera vision solution capable of urban, rural, or off-road classification based on the analysis of color and texture features extracted from a driver's perspective camera view. A feature set based on color and texture distributions is extracted from multiple regions of interest in this forward-facing camera view and combined with a trained classifier approach to resolve two road-type classification problems of varying difficulty - {off-road, on-road} environment determination and the additional multiclass road environment problem of {off-road, urban, major/trunk road and multilane motorway/carriageway}. Two illustrative classification approaches are investigated, and the results are reported over a series of real environment data. An optimal performance of ~90% correct classification is achieved for the {off-road, on-road} problem at a near real-time classification rate of 1 Hz.
Automatic Road Environment Classification
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems ; 12 , 2 ; 476-484
2011-06-01
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Automatic Road Environment Classification
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