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Laser Range-, Color-, and Texture-based Classifiers for Segmenting Marginal Roads

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Author(s)

C E. Rasmussen

Abstract

We describe preliminary results on combining depth information from a laser range-finder and color and texture image cues to train classifiers to segment ill-structured dirt, gravel, and asphalt roads as input to an autonomous road following system. A large number of registered laser and camera images were captured at frame-rate on a variety of rural roads, allowing laser features such as 3-D height and smoothness to be correlated with image features such color histograms and Gabor filter responses. A small set of road models were generated by training separate neural networks on labeled feature vectors clustered by road ``type.'' By first classifying the type of a novel road image, an appropriate second-stage classifier was selected to segment individual pixels, achieving a high degree of accuracy on arbitrary images from the dataset.
Proceedings Title
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Technical Sketches
Conference Dates
December 1, 2001
Conference Location
Kauai, HI
Conference Title
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Technical Sketches

Keywords

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Citation

Rasmussen, C. (2001), Laser Range-, Color-, and Texture-based Classifiers for Segmenting Marginal Roads, Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Technical Sketches, Kauai, HI, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=821649 (Accessed December 13, 2024)

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Created December 7, 2001, Updated February 17, 2017