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International Conference on Automatic, Robotic and Computer Vision, Singapour : Singapour (2010)
Visibility Distance Estimation based on Structure from Motion
Clément Boussard 1, Nicolas Hautiere 2, Brigitte D'Andréa-Novel 3
(2010-12-07)

It is obvious to say that perception is necessary to drive. Furthermore we can say that a good visibility is a guaranty for passengers security. The driver will adapt the vehicle speed to the offered visibility. Strong visibility reductions (dense fog for instance) are conditions of risk of accident. We therefore propose here a method to perform an on-board estimation of the visibility distance. Once this estimate is obtained, assistance could be offered to the driver (eg if it runs at a speed not adapted to the current visibility) or to the road infrastructure management so that it can inform other users of risk on his road network. This method uses images acquired by an on-board camera filming the scene and the estimation of vehicle motion. Thus, from this information we will explain how we can achieve a spatial partial structure reconstruction to estimate the visibility distance.
1:  IMARA (INRIA Rocquencourt)
INRIA
2:  Laboratoire Exploitation, Perception, Simulateurs et Simulations (LEPSIS)
LCPC – INRETS
3:  Centre de CAO et Robotique (CAOR)
MINES ParisTech - École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris
Computer Science/Automatic Control Engineering

Computer Science/Signal and Image Processing

Engineering Sciences/Signal and Image processing
Visibility – Estimation – Structure from Motion