LDNet: End-to-End Lane Marking Detection Approach Using a Dynamic Vision Sensor
Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology（光州科学技术院）；University of Alberta（阿尔伯塔大学）；King Abdulaziz University（阿卜杜勒阿齐兹国王大学）；Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences（波兰科学院系统研究所）
Munir, Farzeen, Shoaib Azam, Moongu Jeon, Byung-Geun Lee, and Witold Pedrycz. "LDNet: End-to-End Lane Marking Detection Approach Using a Dynamic Vision Sensor." IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (2021)
Modern vehicles are equipped with various driver-assistance systems, including automatic lane keeping, which prevents unintended lane departures. Traditional lane detection methods incorporate handcrafted or deep learning-based features followed by postprocessing techniques for lane extraction using frame-based RGB cameras. The utilization of frame-based RGB cameras for lane detection tasks is prone to illumination variations, sun glare, and motion blur, which limits the performance of lane detection methods. Incorporating an event camera for lane detection tasks in the perception stack of autonomous driving is one of the most promising solutions for mitigating challenges encountered by frame-based RGB cameras. The main contribution of this work is the design of the lane marking detection model, which employs the dynamic vision sensor. This paper explores the novel application of lane marking detection using an event camera by designing a convolutional encoder followed by the attention-guided decoder. The spatial resolution of the encoded features is retained by a dense atrous spatial pyramid pooling (ASPP) block. The additive attention mechanism in the decoder improves performance for high dimensional input encoded features that promote lane localization and relieve postprocessing computation. The efficacy of the proposed work is evaluated using the DVS dataset for lane extraction (DET). The experimental results show a significant improvement of $5.54\%$ and $5.03\%$ in $F1$ scores in multiclass and binary-class lane marking detection tasks. Additionally, the intersection over union ($IoU$) scores of the proposed method surpass those of the best-performing state-of-the-art method by $6.50\%$ and $9.37\%$ in multiclass and binary-class tasks, respectively.
Cyprus International University（塞浦路斯国际大学）；the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology（香港科技大学）；Hangzhou ATG Intelligent Technology Co. Ltd.（杭州安智智能科技有限公司）；Guolu Gaoke Engineering Technology Institute Co. Ltd.（国路高科工程技术研究院有限公司）
In this paper, a robust lane detection algorithm is proposed, where the vertical road profile of the road is estimated using dynamic programming from the v-disparity map and, based on the estimated profile, the road area is segmented. Since the lane markings are on the road area and any feature point above the ground will be a noise source for the lane detection, a mask is created for the road area to remove some of the noise for lane detection. The estimated mask is multiplied by the lane feature map in a bird's eye view (BEV). The lane feature points are extracted by using an extended versio…
College of Eng., University of Tehran Tehran, Iran \
In the past few years, researches on advanced driver assistance systems (ADASs) have been carried out and deployed in intelligent vehicles. Systems that have been developed can perform different tasks, such as lane keeping assistance (LKA), lane departure warning (LDW), lane change warning (LCW) and adaptive cruise control (ACC). Real time lane detection and tracking (LDT) is one of the most consequential parts to performing the above tasks. Images which are extracted from the video, contain noise and other unwanted factors such as variation in lightening, shadow from nearby objects and etc. t…
Lane detection is one of the indispensable and key elements of self-driving environmental perception. Many lane detection models have been proposed, solving lane detection under challenging conditions, including intersection merging and splitting, curves, boundaries, occlusions and combinations of scene types. Nevertheless, lane detection will remain an open problem for some time to come. The ability to cope well with those challenging scenes impacts greatly the applications of lane detection on advanced driver assistance systems (ADASs). In this paper, a spatio-temporal network with double Co…
SnowyLane: Robust Lane Detection on Snow-covered Rural Roads Using Infrastructural Elements
University of Tübingen, Faculty of Science, Department of Computer Science, Embedded Systems Group（图宾根大学科学学院计算机科学系嵌入式系统组）；Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI) Karlsruhe（信息研究所（FZI）卡尔斯鲁厄）
German Aerospace Center (DLR)（德国航空航天中心（DLR））；Technical University of Munich（慕尼黑工业大学）
The knowledge about the placement and appearance of lane markings is a prerequisite for the creation of maps with high precision, necessary for autonomous driving, infrastructure monitoring, lane-wise traffic management, and urban planning. Lane markings are one of the important components of such maps. Lane markings convey the rules of roads to drivers. While these rules are learned by humans, an autonomous driving vehicle should be taught to learn them to localize itself. Therefore, accurate and reliable lane marking semantic segmentation in the imagery of roads and highways is needed to ach…
Ain Shams University（艾因夏姆斯大学）；STMicroelectronics（意法半导体）；Electronics Research Institute（电子研究所）
A Complete Computer vision system can be divided into two main categories: detection and classification. The Lane detection algorithm is a part of the computer vision detection category and has been applied in autonomous driving and smart vehicle systems. The lane detection system is responsible for lane marking in a complex road environment. At the same time, lane detection plays a crucial role in the warning system for a car when departs the lane. The implemented lane detection algorithm is mainly divided into two steps: edge detection and line detection. In this paper, we will compare the s…
Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES)（圣灵联邦大学（UFES））；Instituto Federal do Espírito Santo (IFES)（圣灵联邦研究所（IFES））
One of the main factors that contributed to the large advances in autonomous driving is the advent of deep learning. For safer self-driving vehicles, one of the problems that has yet to be solved completely is lane detection. Since methods for this task have to work in real-time (+30 FPS), they not only have to be effective (i.e., have high accuracy) but they also have to be efficient (i.e., fast). In this work, we present a novel method for lane detection that uses as input an image from a forward-looking camera mounted in the vehicle and outputs polynomials representing each lane marking in …
Accurate detection of lane and road markings is a task of great importance for intelligent vehicles. In existing approaches, the detection accuracy often degrades with the increasing distance. This is due to the fact that distant lane and road markings occupy a small number of pixels in the image, and scales of lane and road markings are inconsistent at various distances and perspectives. The Inverse Perspective Mapping (IPM) can be used to eliminate the perspective distortion, but the inherent interpolation can lead to artifacts especially around distant lane and road markings and thus has a …
University of Tennessee, Knoxville（田纳西大学诺克斯维尔分校）；Stanford University（斯坦福大学）
Automatic lane detection is a crucial technology that enables self-driving cars to properly position themselves in a multi-lane urban driving environments. However, detecting diverse road markings in various weather conditions is a challenging task for conventional image processing or computer vision techniques. In recent years, the application of Deep Learning and Neural Networks in this area has proven to be very effective. In this project, we designed an Encoder- Decoder, Fully Convolutional Network for lane detection. This model was applied to a real-world large scale dataset and achieved …
National Chiao Tung University（国立交通大学）；Industrial Technology Research Institute（工业技术研究院）
Lane mark detection is an important element in the road scene analysis for Advanced Driver Assistant System (ADAS). Limited by the onboard computing power, it is still a challenge to reduce system complexity and maintain high accuracy at the same time. In this paper, we propose a Lane Marking Detector (LMD) using a deep convolutional neural network to extract robust lane marking features. To improve its performance with a target of lower complexity, the dilated convolution is adopted. A shallower and thinner structure is designed to decrease the computational cost. Moreover, we also design pos…
In this paper, we propose a unified end-to-end trainable multi-task network that jointly handles lane and road marking detection and recognition that is guided by a vanishing point under adverse weather conditions. We tackle rainy and low illumination conditions, which have not been extensively studied until now due to clear challenges. For example, images taken under rainy days are subject to low illumination, while wet roads cause light reflection and distort the appearance of lane and road markings. At night, color distortion occurs under limited illumination. As a result, no benchmark data…
In this paper, we address the problem of road segmentation and free space detection in the context of autonomous driving. Traditional methods either use 3-dimensional (3D) cues such as point clouds obtained from LIDAR, RADAR or stereo cameras or 2-dimensional (2D) cues such as lane markings, road boundaries and object detection. Typical 3D point clouds do not have enough resolution to detect fine differences in heights such as between road and pavement. Image based 2D cues fail when encountering uneven road textures such as due to shadows, potholes, lane markings or road restoration. We propos…
Decreasing costs of vision sensors and advances in embedded hardware boosted lane related research detection, estimation, and tracking in the past two decades. The interest in this topic has increased even more with the demand for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and self-driving cars. Although extensively studied independently, there is still need for studies that propose a combined solution for the multiple problems related to the ego-lane, such as lane departure warning (LDW), lane change detection, lane marking type (LMT) classification, road markings detection and classification,…
Vision-Based Robust Lane Detection and Tracking under Different Challenging Environmental Conditions
Melbourne Institute of Technology（墨尔本理工学院）；Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology（拉杰沙希工程技术大学）；Charles Sturt University（查尔斯特大学）；University of Rajshahi（拉杰沙希大学）
Driving with Context: Online Map Matching for Complex Roads Using Lane Markings and Scenario Recognition
School of Automotive Studies, Tongji University（同济大学汽车学院）；Department of Automation and Perception, Shanghai Jiao Tong University（上海交通大学自动化与感知系）；Zenseact
NVIDIA Corporation（英伟达公司）；New York University（纽约大学）；Google Research（谷歌研究院）
As part of a complete software stack for autonomous driving, NVIDIA has created a neural-network-based system, known as PilotNet, which outputs steering angles given images of the road ahead. PilotNet is trained using road images paired with the steering angles generated by a human driving a data-collection car. It derives the necessary domain knowledge by observing human drivers. This eliminates the need for human engineers to anticipate what is important in an image and foresee all the necessary rules for safe driving. Road tests demonstrated that PilotNet can successfully perform lane keepi…
Daimler AG R&D（戴姆勒股份公司研发部）；University of Ulm（乌尔姆大学）
This paper proposes an approach that predicts the road course from camera sensors leveraging deep learning techniques. Road pixels are identified by training a multi-scale convolutional neural network on a large number of full-scene-labeled night-time road images including adverse weather conditions. A framework is presented that applies the proposed approach to longer distance road course estimation, which is the basis for an augmented reality navigation application. In this framework long range sensor data (radar) and data from a map database are fused with short range sensor data (camera) t…
With the development of intelligent vehicle systems, a high-precision road map is increasingly needed in many aspects. The automatic lane lines extraction and modeling are the most essential steps for the generation of a precise lane-level road map. In this paper, an automatic lane-level road map generation system is proposed. To extract the road markings on the ground, the multi-region Otsu thresholding method is applied, which calculates the intensity value of laser data that maximizes the variance between background and road markings. The extracted road marking points are then projected to …
University of Macau（澳门大学）；Beijing Normal University at Zhuhai（北京师范大学珠海校区）
In this article, a robust color-edge feature extraction method based on the Quaternion Hardy filter is proposed. The Quaternion Hardy filter is an emerging edge detection theory. It is along with the Poisson and conjugate Poisson smoothing kernels to handle various types of noise. Combining with the Quaternion Hardy filter, Jin's color gradient operator and Hough transform, the color-edge feature detection algorithm is proposed and applied to the lane marking detection. Experiments are presented to demonstrate the validity of the proposed algorithm. The results are accurate and robust with res…
We trained a convolutional neural network (CNN) to map raw pixels from a single front-facing camera directly to steering commands. This end-to-end approach proved surprisingly powerful. With minimum training data from humans the system learns to drive in traffic on local roads with or without lane markings and on highways. It also operates in areas with unclear visual guidance such as in parking lots and on unpaved roads. The system automatically learns internal representations of the necessary processing steps such as detecting useful road features with only the human steering angle as the tr…
Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院合肥物质科学研究院）；University of Science and Technology of China（中国科学技术大学）；Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT)（拉彭兰塔工业大学）
It is a crucial step to achieve effective semantic segmentation of lane marking during the construction of the lane level high-precision map. In recent years, many image semantic segmentation methods have been proposed. These methods mainly focus on the image from camera, due to the limitation of the sensor itself, the accurate three-dimensional spatial position of the lane marking cannot be obtained, so the demand for the lane level high-precision map construction cannot be met. This paper proposes a lane marking semantic segmentation method based on LIDAR and camera fusion deep neural networ…
The automatic parking is being massively developed by car manufacturers and providers. Until now, there are two problems with the automatic parking. First, there is no openly-available segmentation labels of parking slot on panoramic surround view (PSV) dataset. Second, how to detect parking slot and road structure robustly. Therefore, in this paper, we build up a public PSV dataset. At the same time, we proposed a highly fused convolutional network (HFCN) based segmentation method for parking slot and lane markings based on the PSV dataset. A surround-view image is made of four calibrated ima…
We propose a vision-based highway border detection algorithm using structured Hough voting. Our approach takes advantage of the geometric relationship between highway road borders and highway lane markings. It uses a strategy where a number of trained road border and lane marking detectors are triggered, followed by Hough voting to generate corresponding detection of the border and lane marking. Since the initially triggered detectors usually result in large number of positives, conventional frame-wise Hough voting is not able to always generate robust border and lane marking results. Therefor…
The detection of multiple curved lane markings on a non-flat road surface is still a challenging task for automotive applications. To make an improvement, the depth information can be used to greatly enhance the robustness of the lane detection systems. The proposed system in this paper is developed from our previous work where the dense vanishing point Vp is estimated globally to assist the detection of multiple curved lane markings. However, the outliers in the optimal solution may severely affect the accuracy of the least squares fitting when estimating Vp. Therefore, in this paper we use R…
Lane detection is typically tackled with a two-step pipeline in which a segmentation mask of the lane markings is predicted first, and a lane line model (like a parabola or spline) is fitted to the post-processed mask next. The problem with such a two-step approach is that the parameters of the network are not optimized for the true task of interest (estimating the lane curvature parameters) but for a proxy task (segmenting the lane markings), resulting in sub-optimal performance. In this work, we propose a method to train a lane detector in an end-to-end manner, directly regressing the lane p…
In this work, we have developed a robust lane detection and departure warning technique. Our system is based on single camera sensor. For lane detection a modified Inverse Perspective Mapping using only a few extrinsic camera parameters and illuminant Invariant techniques is used. Lane markings are represented using a combination of 2nd and 4th order steerable filters, robust to shadowing. Effect of shadowing and extra sun light are removed using Lab color space, and illuminant invariant representation. Lanes are assumed to be cubic curves and fitted using robust RANSAC. This method can reliab…
Robust Vision Systems for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles: Security Challenges and Attack Vectors
Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT), Queen's University Belfast, UK（安全信息科技中心（CSIT），女王大学贝尔法斯特，英国）；Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento, Italy（信息工程与计算机科学系，特伦托大学，意大利）
Lane detection is an essential part of the perception sub-architecture of any automated driving (AD) or advanced driver assistance system (ADAS). When focusing on low-cost, large scale products for automated driving, model-driven approaches for the detection of lane markings have proven good performance. More recently, data-driven approaches have been proposed that target the drivable area / freespace mainly in inner-city applications. Focus of these approaches is less on lane-based driving due to the fact that the lane concept does not fully apply in unstructured, residential inner-city envir…
Huawei Munich Research Center（华为慕尼黑研究中心）；Huawei Intelligent Automotive Solution BU（华为智能汽车解决方案BU）
Acquiring information about the road lane structure is a crucial step for autonomous navigation. To this end, several approaches tackle this task from different perspectives such as lane marking detection or semantic lane segmentation. However, to the best of our knowledge, there is yet no purely vision based end-to-end solution to answer the precise question: How to estimate the relative number or "ID" of the current driven lane within a multi-lane road or a highway? In this work, we propose a real-time, vision-only (i.e. monocular camera) solution to the problem based on a dual left-right co…
In this paper, we introduce a novel road marking benchmark dataset for road marking detection, addressing the limitations in the existing publicly available datasets such as lack of challenging scenarios, prominence given to lane markings, unavailability of an evaluation script, lack of annotation formats and lower resolutions. Our dataset consists of 2887 total images with 4706 road marking instances belonging to 11 classes. The images have a high resolution of 1920 x 1080 and capture a wide range of traffic, lighting and weather conditions. We provide road marking annotations in polygons, bo…
The search for predictive models that generalize to the long tail of sensor inputs is the central difficulty when developing data-driven models for autonomous vehicles. In this paper, we use lane detection to study modeling and training techniques that yield better performance on real world test drives. On the modeling side, we introduce a novel fully convolutional model of lane detection that learns to decode lane structures instead of delegating structure inference to post-processing. In contrast to previous works, our convolutional decoder is able to represent an arbitrary number of lanes p…
ESAT-PSI, KU Leuven（比利时鲁汶大学（KU Leuven）ESAT-PSI实验室（ESAT-PSI））
Modern cars are incorporating an increasing number of driver assist features, among which automatic lane keeping. The latter allows the car to properly position itself within the road lanes, which is also crucial for any subsequent lane departure or trajectory planning decision in fully autonomous cars. Traditional lane detection methods rely on a combination of highly-specialized, hand-crafted features and heuristics, usually followed by post-processing techniques, that are computationally expensive and prone to scalability due to road scene variations. More recent approaches leverage deep le…
SparseLaneSTP: Leveraging Spatio-Temporal Priors with Sparse Transformers for 3D Lane Detection
Bosch Mobility Solutions, Robert Bosch GmbH（博世移动解决方案，罗伯特·博世有限公司）；Institute of Neuro- and Bioinformatics, University of Lübeck（神经与生物医学研究所，吕贝克大学）；Institute for Signal Processing and System Theory, University of Stuttgart（信号处理与系统理论研究所，斯图加特大学）
Accurate and reliable lane detection is vital for the safe performance of lane-keeping assistance and lane departure warning systems. However, under certain challenging circumstances, it is difficult to get satisfactory performance in accurately detecting the lanes from one single image as mostly done in current literature. Since lane markings are continuous lines, the lanes that are difficult to be accurately detected in the current single image can potentially be better deduced if information from previous frames is incorporated. This study proposes a novel hybrid spatial-temporal (ST) seque…
Intersection scenarios provide the most complex traffic situations in Autonomous Driving and Driving Assistance Systems. Knowing where to stop in advance in an intersection is an essential parameter in controlling the longitudinal velocity of the vehicle. Most of the existing methods in literature solely use cameras to detect stop lines, which is typically not sufficient in terms of detection range. To address this issue, we propose a method that takes advantage of fused multi-sensory data including stereo camera and lidar as input and utilizes a carefully designed convolutional neural network…
Lane detection is an important yet challenging task in autonomous driving, which is affected by many factors, e.g., light conditions, occlusions caused by other vehicles, irrelevant markings on the road and the inherent long and thin property of lanes. Conventional methods typically treat lane detection as a semantic segmentation task, which assigns a class label to each pixel of the image. This formulation heavily depends on the assumption that the number of lanes is pre-defined and fixed and no lane changing occurs, which does not always hold. To make the lane detection model applicable to a…
Georgia Institute of Technology（佐治亚理工学院）；Aison Pte. Ltd.（Aison私人有限公司）
Lane detection is an integral part of control systems in autonomous vehicles and lane departure warning systems as lanes are a key component of the operating environment for road vehicles. In a previous paper, a robust neural network output enhancement for active lane detection (RONELD) method augmenting deep learning lane detection models to improve active, or ego, lane accuracy performance was presented. This paper extends the work by further investigating the lane tracking methods used to increase robustness of the method to lane changes and different lane dimensions (e.g. lane marking thic…
Convolutional neural networks have been successfully applied to semantic segmentation problems. However, there are many problems that are inherently not pixel-wise classification problems but are nevertheless frequently formulated as semantic segmentation. This ill-posed formulation consequently necessitates hand-crafted scenario-specific and computationally expensive post-processing methods to convert the per pixel probability maps to final desired outputs. Generative adversarial networks (GANs) can be used to make the semantic segmentation network output to be more realistic or better struct…
Xi’an Jiaotong University（西安交通大学）；Capital Normal University（首都师范大学）；Shenzhen Forward Innovation Digital Technology Co. Ltd（深圳市前沿创新数字技术有限公司）
Lane detection, the process of identifying lane markings as approximated curves, is widely used for lane departure warning and adaptive cruise control in autonomous vehicles. The popular pipeline that solves it in two steps -- feature extraction plus post-processing, while useful, is too inefficient and flawed in learning the global context and lanes' long and thin structures. To tackle these issues, we propose an end-to-end method that directly outputs parameters of a lane shape model, using a network built with a transformer to learn richer structures and context. The lane shape model is for…
For the self-driving and automatic parking, perception is the basic and critical technique, moreover, the detection of lane markings and parking slots is an important part of visual perception. In this paper, we use the semantic segmentation method to segment the area and classify the class of lane makings and parking slots on panoramic surround view (PSV) dataset. We propose the DFNet and make two main contributions, one is dynamic loss weights, and the other is residual fusion block (RFB). Dynamic loss weights are varying from classes, calculated according to the pixel number of each class i…
University of Parma（帕尔马大学）；University of Bologna（博洛尼亚大学）；Universidad Carlos III de Madrid（马德里卡洛斯三世大学）
Many systems for autonomous vehicles' navigation rely on lane detection. Traditional algorithms usually estimate only the position of the lanes on the road, but an autonomous control system may also need to know if a lane marking can be crossed or not, and what portion of space inside the lane is free from obstacles, to make safer control decisions. On the other hand, free space detection algorithms only detect navigable areas, without information about lanes. State-of-the-art algorithms use CNNs for both tasks, with significant consumption of computing resources. We propose a novel approach t…
