ComputingComputer ScienceMechatronics EngineeringAutonomous VehiclesComputer VisionMachine VisionActive VisionCamera GeometryCamera ModelsObject RecognitionTraffic Sign RecognitionVehicle PerceptionPhotometric ClassificationRoad Feature DetectionRoad Surface Detection
The MarVEye camera arrangement allows a new kind of road recognition di#erentiating between the near and the far range also in model building. The wide simultaneous #eld of view resulting from the oblique #skewed# view of two wide-angle cameras has many advantages for tight maneuvering; in addition, it allows to separate egostate recognition relative to the road nearby from road curvature further away. Experience with bifocal vision in public tra#c has shown that both a wide simultaneous #eld of view #beyond 100 # if possible# and a large look-ahead range #to several hundred meters, if possible# are favorable if performance levels close to those of human drivers are looked for. The corresponding arrangementof a set of multi-focal conventional cameras, dubbed MarVEye, allows to adapt road recognition to special regimes and to introduce redundancy as a new feature, both desirable properties for practical systems. Medium and far range road curvature recognition is achieved by actively ...