Comprehensive situational awareness is paramount to the effectiveness of proprietary navigational and higher-level functions of intelligent vehicles. In this paper, we address a graph-based approach for 2D road representation of 3D point clouds with respect to the road topography. We employ the gradient cues of the road geometry to construct a Markov Random Filed (MRF) and implement an efficient belief propagation (BP) algorithm to classify the road environment into four categories, i.e. the reachable region, the drivable region, the obstacle region and the unknown region. The proposed approach can overcome a wide variety of practical challenges, such as sloped terrains, rough road surfaces, rolling/pitching of the host vehicle, etc., and represent the road environment accurately as well as robustly. Experimental results in typical but challenging environments have substantiated that the proposed approach is more sensitive and reliable than the conventional vertical displacements analysis and show superior performance against other local classifiers.
Graph-based 2D road representation of 3D point clouds for intelligent vehicles
2011-06-01
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Graph-Based 2D Road Representation of 3D Point Clouds for Intelligent Vehicles
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