Vehicle-following system using color-vision

This paper introduces a vehicle-following-system in which a moving vehicle recognizes the front vehicle's tail-light color and luminance, while maintaining a certain distance and avoiding collision. Using color images rather than using gray-scale images makes it easier to detect the objective color and eliminates the need of a thresholding. The Methods used are RGB to HSV conversion and global region growing method. This paper contributes to the basic study of Color-Vision, and can be extended to color inspection systems.