Cars detection and tracking with a vision sensor

Xavier Clady (1) , François Collange (1) , Philippe Martinet (1) , Frédéric Jurie (2)

1 LASMEA - Laboratoire des sciences et matériaux pour l'électronique et d'automatique
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In this article, a visual sensor combining a short fixed focal length camera and a PTZ (Pan Tilt Zoom) camera is described. The works presented here deal with process for cars detection and tracking using this vision sensor. These algorithms have been tested in real driving situations with a PC embedded into the experimental vehicle of the laboratory named VELAC. Front vehicles can be detected and tracked up to 140 meters with our sensor.

Mots clés: automobiles; computer vision; object detection; tracking; video cameras

Domaines: Vision par ordinateur et reconnaissance de formes [cs.CV]

Xavier Clady, François Collange, Philippe Martinet, Frédéric Jurie. Cars detection and tracking with a vision sensor. Intelligent Vehicle Symposium (IV 2003), Jun 2003, Columbus, United States. pp.593--598, ⟨10.1109/IVS.2003.1212979⟩. ⟨inria-00548237⟩