Realtime Road Detection by Learning from One Example

Realtime detection and localization of a road from an aerial image is an emerging research area that can be applied to vision-based navigation of unmanned air vehicles. Existing realtime and non-realtime road detection algorithms focus on pre-defined road types, and a single algorithm cannot handle a large variety of road types such as dirt roads, local streets, and freeways. An algorithm to detecting any types of corridors is presented. First, a corridor structure is automatically learned at runtime with a single example. The corridor structure is represented as a crosssectional 1-D signal segment. The learning procedure is to find the maximum correlation of such signals. The realtime detection consists of 1-D signal matching and robust fitting on the matching result. Realtime detection results on various road images are presented.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: WACV
• Authors: Zu Whan Kim
• Keywords: Corridor Structure, Realtime Detection, Road Types, WACV 2005