Research Article

A Hybrid Vision-Map Method for Urban Road Detection

Table 1

Classification of different road detection methodologies.

Methodology Sensor Feature Examples Refs

Road appearanceVisionColorIlluminant invariant, GMM[35]
TextureHOG, anisotropy, filter bank, LBP[6, 7]
AutomaticCNN[8, 9]

Road limits Vision LIDAR Road markingsReflectivity intensity, adaptive threshold[1012]
Road curbsDigital Elevation Maps, difference of heights, curvatures[1320]

Geometrical modeling Map + GPS RADAR Vision LIDAR Parametric modelsParabolic curves, clothoids, B-splines, snakes[2125]
Nonparametric modelsAnt Colony Optimization, Dijkstra, [26, 27]