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http://dx.doi.org/10.6109/jkiice.2017.21.2.409

Road Segmentation using Automatic Marked Watershed  

Park, Han-dong (IVM Co. Ltd.)
Oh, Jeong-su (Department of Display Engineering, Pukyong National University)
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Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering / v.21, no.2, 2017 , pp. 409-415 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper proposes a road segmentation algorithm using a watershed. The proposed algorithm is a segmentation algorithm using an automatic marked watershed that automatically creates a road marker and a background marker using information about vehicles and lanes on road and it can solve problems of a watershed-based segmentation such as overmany regions or handworks for markers. The road marker has property for pure road areas in which lanes are included but vehicles are excluded and the background marker has property for the areas left in which vehicles and background are included. Results of segmentation applied to real road images show that the proposed algorithm can automatically creates appropriate markers and it can properly segments the required road area that include the lane with a vehicle and its both side lanes in various environments, and it is equal to the conventional algorithm using markers created by handwork in performance.
Keywords
road; segmentation; automatic; marker; watershed;
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