Traffic Light Detection with In-Vehicle Camera and Development ofDriver Assistance System

• Project/Area Number: 22500164
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Perception information processing/Intelligent robotics
• Research Institution: Sendai National College of Technology
• Principal Investigator: OMACHI Masako 仙台高等専門学校, 専攻科, 准教授 (90316448)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): OMACHI Shinichiro 東北大学, 大学院・工学研究科, 教授 (30250856)
• Project Period (FY): 2010 – 2012
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2012)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,290,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥990,000); Fiscal Year 2012: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000); Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000); Fiscal Year 2010: ¥2,080,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥480,000)
• Keywords: 画像、文章、音声等認識 / 道路環境認識 / 交通信号 / 高度道路交通システム / 運転支援システム / 画像認識 / パターン認識 / テンプレートマッチング / コンピュータビジョン

Research Abstract

A system that can capture a movie including traffic lights with an in-vehicle camera and laptop personal computer was constructed. An algorithm for detecting traffic lights considering color saturation using luminance and color information had been developed. Using the algorithm, a method of acquiring a signal precisely considering actual size of standard traffic lights was developed.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Pattern recognition using boundary data of component distributions (2011)
  • Author(s): Masako Omachi, Shinichiro Omachi, Hirotomo Aso, and Tsuneo Saito
  • Journal Title: Computers & Industrial Engineering Volume: 60巻 Pages: 466-472
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Pattern Recognition with Gaussian Mixture Models of Marginal Distributions (2011)
  • Author(s): Masako Omachi and Shinichiro Omachi
  • Journal Title: IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems Volume: E94-D巻 Pages: 317-324
  • NAID: 130005433607
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Pattern recognition using boundary data of component distributions (2011)
  • Author(s): Masako Omachi
  • Journal Title: Computers & Industrial Engineering Volume: 60 Issue: 3 Pages: 466-472
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.cie.2010.08.007
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Representative Graph Generation for Graph-Based Character Recognition (2011)
  • Author(s): Tomo Miyazaki
  • Journal Title: The Journal of the Institute of Image Electronics Engineers of Japan Volume: 40 Pages: 439-447
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Comparative Study on Color Components for PCA-Based Face Recognition (2011)
  • Author(s): Dongzhu Yin
  • Journal Title: The Journal of the Institute of Image Electronics Engineers of Japan Volume: 40 Pages: 671-678
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Pattern Recognition with Gaussian Mixture Models of Marginal Distributions (2011)
  • Author(s): Masako Omachi
  • Journal Title: IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems Volume: E94-D Pages: 317-324
  • NAID: 130005433607
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Pattern recognition using boundary data of component distributions (2011)
  • Author(s): Masako Omachi
  • Journal Title: Computers and Industrial Engineering Volume: 60 Pages: 466-472
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Novel Confidence Feature Extraction Algorithm Based on Latent Topic Similarity (2010)
  • Author(s): Wei Chen, Gang Liu, Jun Guo,Shinichiro Omachi, Masako Omachi, and Yujing Guo
  • Journal Title: IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems Volume: E93-D Pages: 2243-2251
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] 色飽和を考慮した交通信号灯検出 (2013)
  • Author(s): 茂泉拓紀
  • Organizer: 電子情報通信学会総合大会
  • Place of Presentation: 岐阜大学(岐阜市)
  • Year and Date: 2013-03-22
• [Presentation] 車載ステレオカメラを用いた色飽和を考慮した交通信号灯認識 (2013)
  • Author(s): 茂泉拓紀
  • Organizer: 電子情報通信学会パターン認識・メディア理解研究会
  • Place of Presentation: 大阪府立大学(堺市)
  • Year and Date: 2013-02-21
• [Presentation] ステレオカメラを使った信号灯認識 (2012)
  • Author(s): 茂泉拓紀
  • Organizer: 電気関係学会東北支部連合大会
  • Place of Presentation: 秋田県立大学(由利本荘市)
  • Year and Date: 2012-08-31
• [Presentation] ベクトルの流れと視差マップを用いた領域分割 (2011)
  • Author(s): 土田寛子
  • Organizer: 電子情報通信学会パターン認識・メディア理解研究会
  • Place of Presentation: 長崎
  • Year and Date: 2011-11-25
• [Presentation] エッジ情報を用いた全方位カメラの映像中の文字列検出 (2011)
  • Author(s): 夏目祐輔
  • Organizer: 電子情報通信学会パターン認識・メディア理解研究会
  • Place of Presentation: 長崎
  • Year and Date: 2011-11-24
• [Presentation] Detection of Traffic Light Using Structural Information (2010)
  • Author(s): Masako Omachi
  • Organizer: IEEE 10th International Conference on Signal Processing
  • Place of Presentation: 北京(中国)
  • Year and Date: 2010-10-26
• [Presentation] Detection of Traffic Light Using Structural Information (2010)
  • Author(s): Masako Omachi
  • Organizer: IEEE 10th International Conference on Signal Processing
  • Place of Presentation: 北京、中国
  • Year and Date: 2010-10-26
• [Presentation] ステレオカメラを使った信号灯認識
  • Author(s): 茂泉拓紀
  • Organizer: 電気関係学会東北支部連合大会
  • Place of Presentation: 秋田県立大学（由利本荘市）
• [Presentation] 車載ステレオカメラを用いた色飽和を考慮した交通信号灯認識
  • Author(s): 茂泉拓紀
  • Organizer: 電子情報通信学会パターン認識・メディア理解研究会
  • Place of Presentation: 大阪府立大学（堺市）
• [Presentation] 色飽和を考慮した交通信号灯検出
  • Author(s): 茂泉拓紀
  • Organizer: 電子情報通信学会総合大会
  • Place of Presentation: 岐阜大学（岐阜市）