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A Camera Based Traffic Signal Generating Algorithm for Safety Entrance of the Vehicle into the Joining Road

차량의 안전한 합류도로 진입을 위한 단일 카메라 기반 교통신호 발생 알고리즘

  • Jeong Jun-Ik (Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Graduate School, Chonbuk National University) ;
  • Rho Do-Hwan (Div. of Electronics and Information Engineering, Chonbuk National University)
  • 정준익 (전북대학교 전기공학과) ;
  • 노도환 (전북대학교 전자정보공학부)
  • Published : 2006.07.01
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Abstract

Safety is the most important for all traffic management and control technology. This paper focuses on developing a flexible, reliable and real-time processing algorithm which is able to generate signal for the entering vehicle at the joining road through a camera and image processing technique. The images obtained from the camera located beside and upon the road can be used for traffic surveillance, the vehicle's travel speed measurement, predicted arriving time in joining area between main road and joining road. And the proposed algorithm displays the confluence safety signal with red, blue and yellow color sign. The three methods are used to detect the vehicle which is driving in setted detecting area. The first method is the gray scale normalized correlation algorithm, and the second is the edge magnitude ratio changing algorithm, and the third is the average intensity changing algorithm The real-time prototype confluence safety signal generation algorithm is implemented on stored digital image sequences of real traffic state and a program with good experimental results.

안전은 교통관제와 제어기술에서 중요한 부분이다. 본 논문에서는 단일 비젼시스템을 이용하여 합류도로에 진입하려는 차량에 합류안전 신호를 발생하는 유연하고, 안정적이며 실시간 처리가 가능한 알고리즘에 대해 제안하였다. 도로측면에 위치한 카메라로부터 얻어지는 영상을 이용하여 주행차량 감시와 차량의 주행속도, 본선도로와 진입도로 사이의 합류지점까지의 도달시간을 예측하여 빨강, 파랑, 노랑의 색으로 주행 안전 여부를 표시하였다. 영상에서 설정한 영역에 차량이 주행함을 검출하기 위해 농담정규화 상관법, 경계 크기 비 변화, 평균 농담변화의 세 가지 방법을 이용하였다. 실제 합류도로에서 촬영한 영상으로부터 제안한 알고리즘에 적용하여 결과를 제시하였다.

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