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Author Jose Manuel Alvarez; Theo Gevers; Y. LeCun; Antonio Lopez edit   pdf
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  Title Road Scene Segmentation from a Single Image Type Conference Article
  Year 2012 Publication (up) 12th European Conference on Computer Vision Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 7578 Issue VII Pages 376-389  
  Keywords road detection  
  Abstract Road scene segmentation is important in computer vision for different applications such as autonomous driving and pedestrian detection. Recovering the 3D structure of road scenes provides relevant contextual information to improve their understanding.
In this paper, we use a convolutional neural network based algorithm to learn features from noisy labels to recover the 3D scene layout of a road image. The novelty of the algorithm relies on generating training labels by applying an algorithm trained on a general image dataset to classify on–board images. Further, we propose a novel texture descriptor based on a learned color plane fusion to obtain maximal uniformity in road areas. Finally, acquired (off–line) and current (on–line) information are combined to detect road areas in single images.
From quantitative and qualitative experiments, conducted on publicly available datasets, it is concluded that convolutional neural networks are suitable for learning 3D scene layout from noisy labels and provides a relative improvement of 7% compared to the baseline. Furthermore, combining color planes provides a statistical description of road areas that exhibits maximal uniformity and provides a relative improvement of 8% compared to the baseline. Finally, the improvement is even bigger when acquired and current information from a single image are combined
 
  Address Florence, Italy  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
  Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor  
  Language Summary Language Original Title  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-33785-7 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference ECCV  
  Notes ADAS;ISE Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ AGL2012; ADAS @ adas @ agl2012a Serial 2022  
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Author Jose Manuel Alvarez; Y. LeCun; Theo Gevers; Antonio Lopez edit   pdf
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  Title Semantic Road Segmentation via Multi-Scale Ensembles of Learned Features Type Conference Article
  Year 2012 Publication (up) 12th European Conference on Computer Vision – Workshops and Demonstrations Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 7584 Issue Pages 586-595  
  Keywords road detection  
  Abstract Semantic segmentation refers to the process of assigning an object label (e.g., building, road, sidewalk, car, pedestrian) to every pixel in an image. Common approaches formulate the task as a random field labeling problem modeling the interactions between labels by combining local and contextual features such as color, depth, edges, SIFT or HoG. These models are trained to maximize the likelihood of the correct classification given a training set. However, these approaches rely on hand–designed features (e.g., texture, SIFT or HoG) and a higher computational time required in the inference process.
Therefore, in this paper, we focus on estimating the unary potentials of a conditional random field via ensembles of learned features. We propose an algorithm based on convolutional neural networks to learn local features from training data at different scales and resolutions. Then, diversification between these features is exploited using a weighted linear combination. Experiments on a publicly available database show the effectiveness of the proposed method to perform semantic road scene segmentation in still images. The algorithm outperforms appearance based methods and its performance is similar compared to state–of–the–art methods using other sources of information such as depth, motion or stereo.
 
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  Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor  
  Language Summary Language Original Title  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-33867-0 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference ECCVW  
  Notes ADAS;ISE Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ ALG2012; ADAS @ adas Serial 2187  
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Author Ferran Diego; Jose Manuel Alvarez; Joan Serrat; Antonio Lopez edit   pdf
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  Title Vision-based road detection via on-line video registration Type Conference Article
  Year 2010 Publication (up) 13th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 1135–1140  
  Keywords video alignment; road detection  
  Abstract TB6.2
Road segmentation is an essential functionality for supporting advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) such as road following and vehicle and pedestrian detection. Significant efforts have been made in order to solve this task using vision-based techniques. The major challenge is to deal with lighting variations and the presence of objects on the road surface. In this paper, we propose a new road detection method to infer the areas of the image depicting road surfaces without performing any image segmentation. The idea is to previously segment manually or semi-automatically the road region in a traffic-free reference video record on a first drive. And then to transfer these regions to the frames of a second video sequence acquired later in a second drive through the same road, in an on-line manner. This is possible because we are able to automatically align the two videos in time and space, that is, to synchronize them and warp each frame of the first video to its corresponding frame in the second one. The geometric transform can thus transfer the road region to the present frame on-line. In order to reduce the different lighting conditions which are present in outdoor scenarios, our approach incorporates a shadowless feature space which represents an image in an illuminant-invariant feature space. Furthermore, we propose a dynamic background subtraction algorithm which removes the regions containing vehicles in the observed frames which are within the transferred road region.
 
  Address Madeira Island (Portugal)  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
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  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 2153-0009 ISBN 978-1-4244-7657-2 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference ITSC  
  Notes ADAS Approved no  
  Call Number ADAS @ adas @ DAS2010 Serial 1424  
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Author Jose Manuel Alvarez; Theo Gevers; Antonio Lopez edit   pdf
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  Title 3D Scene Priors for Road Detection Type Conference Article
  Year 2010 Publication (up) 23rd IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 57–64  
  Keywords road detection  
  Abstract Vision-based road detection is important in different areas of computer vision such as autonomous driving, car collision warning and pedestrian crossing detection. However, current vision-based road detection methods are usually based on low-level features and they assume structured roads, road homogeneity, and uniform lighting conditions. Therefore, in this paper, contextual 3D information is used in addition to low-level cues. Low-level photometric invariant cues are derived from the appearance of roads. Contextual cues used include horizon lines, vanishing points, 3D scene layout and 3D road stages. Moreover, temporal road cues are included. All these cues are sensitive to different imaging conditions and hence are considered as weak cues. Therefore, they are combined to improve the overall performance of the algorithm. To this end, the low-level, contextual and temporal cues are combined in a Bayesian framework to classify road sequences. Large scale experiments on road sequences show that the road detection method is robust to varying imaging conditions, road types, and scenarios (tunnels, urban and highway). Further, using the combined cues outperforms all other individual cues. Finally, the proposed method provides highest road detection accuracy when compared to state-of-the-art methods.  
  Address San Francisco; CA; USA; June 2010  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
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  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 1063-6919 ISBN 978-1-4244-6984-0 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference CVPR  
  Notes ADAS;ISE Approved no  
  Call Number ADAS @ adas @ AGL2010a Serial 1302  
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Author Jose Manuel Alvarez; Antonio Lopez; Ramon Baldrich edit   pdf
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  Title Shadow Resistant Road Segmentation from a Mobile Monocular System Type Conference Article
  Year 2007 Publication (up) 3rd Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (IbPRIA 2007), J. Marti et al. (Eds.) LNCS 4477:9–16 Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords road detection  
  Abstract  
  Address Gerona (Spain)  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
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  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
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  Area Expedition Conference  
  Notes ADAS;CIC Approved no  
  Call Number ADAS @ adas @ ALB2007 Serial 943  
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Author Jose Manuel Alvarez; Antonio Lopez edit  openurl
  Title Model-based road detection using shadowless features and on-line learning Type Miscellaneous
  Year 2009 Publication (up) BMVA one–day technical meeting on vision for automotive applications Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords road detection  
  Abstract  
  Address London, UK  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
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  Language Summary Language Original Title  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN ISBN Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference  
  Notes ADAS Approved no  
  Call Number ADAS @ adas @ AlA2009 Serial 1272  
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Author Angel Sappa; Rosa Herrero; Fadi Dornaika; David Geronimo; Antonio Lopez edit   pdf
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  Title Road Approximation in Euclidean and v-Disparity Space: A Comparative Study Type Conference Article
  Year 2007 Publication (up) Computer Aided Systems Theory, Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 4739 Issue Pages 1105–1112  
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  Abstract This paper presents a comparative study between two road approximation techniques—planar surfaces—from stereo vision data. The first approach is carried out in the v-disparity space and is based on a voting scheme, the Hough transform. The second one consists in computing the best fitting plane for the whole 3D road data points, directly in the Euclidean space, by using least squares fitting. The comparative study is initially performed over a set of different synthetic surfaces
(e.g., plane, quadratic surface, cubic surface) digitized by a virtual stereo head; then real data obtained with a commercial stereo head are used. The comparative study is intended to be used as a criterion for fining the best technique according to the road geometry. Additionally, it highlights common problems driven from a wrong assumption about the scene’s prior knowledge.
 
  Address Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain)  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
  Publisher Place of Publication Editor  
  Language Summary Language Original Title  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN ISBN Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference EUROCAST  
  Notes ADAS Approved no  
  Call Number ADAS @ adas @ SHD2007b Serial 917  
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Author Sebastian Ramos edit  openurl
  Title Vision-based Detection of Road Hazards for Autonomous Driving Type Report
  Year 2014 Publication (up) CVC Technical Report Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages  
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  Abstract  
  Address UAB; September 2014  
  Corporate Author Thesis Master's thesis  
  Publisher Place of Publication Editor  
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  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN ISBN Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference  
  Notes ADAS; 600.076 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ Ram2014 Serial 2580  
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Author Jose Manuel Alvarez edit  openurl
  Title On-Board Road Surface Segmentation Type Report
  Year 2007 Publication (up) CVC Technical Report #108 Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages  
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  Address CVC (UAB)  
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  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
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  ISSN ISBN Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference  
  Notes ADAS Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ Alv2007 Serial 820  
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Author Angel Sappa; Rosa Herrero; Fadi Dornaika; David Geronimo; Antonio Lopez edit   pdf
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  Title Road Approximation in Euclidean and v-Disparity Space: A Comparative Study Type Conference Article
  Year 2007 Publication (up) EUROCAST2007, Workshop on Cybercars and Intelligent Vehicles Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 368–369  
  Keywords  
  Abstract This paper presents a comparative study between two road approximation techniques—planar surfaces—from stereo vision data. The first approach is carried out in the v-disparity space and is based on a voting scheme, the Hough transform. The second one consists in computing the best fitting plane for the whole 3D road data points, directly in the Euclidean space, by using least squares fitting. The comparative study is initially performed over a set of different synthetic surfaces
(e.g., plane, quadratic surface, cubic surface) digitized by a virtual stereo head; then real data obtained with a commercial stereo head are used. The comparative study is intended to be used as a criterion for fining the best technique according to the road geometry. Additionally, it highlights common problems driven from a wrong assumption about the scene’s prior knowledge.
 
  Address Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain)  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
  Publisher Place of Publication Editor  
  Language Summary Language Original Title  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN ISBN Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference  
  Notes ADAS Approved no  
  Call Number ADAS @ adas @ SHD2007a Serial 936  
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